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. . . and there is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison...

. . . and there is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders...

George Bernard Shaw Collected Plays with Their Prefaces, volume IV (1972), page 35.
 
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Achievers

Cássia Mildner, Piano

Cássia Mildner
Cassia Mildner (10) from Northern Cape
Cássia recieved an average of 87% for five entries in piano under ten at the recent Upington Eistedfod. Her parents, Hartmuth and Sonia, have been homeschooling her since birth.

Souce: Die Gemsbok 10 Nov 2006 
 

According to our critics

SAfm

Home schooling

More and more families are deciding this is a viable option in SA. Enough for the DoE to commission formal research to either endorse or dispel the anecdotal evidence on the apparent benefits. We find out more on the official line in Afternoon Talk on Tuesday.

Announcement for a programme transmitted on 10/10/06
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On school education

Edward Grieg
I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.
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Gauteng frightens homeschoolers

Angie Motshekca, MEC for Education in Gauteng
Angie Motshekga
From the midst of the rubble that used to be the government school system, instructions are now going out to kill off alternative options. However, mothers who are also intellectual and business leaders, such as Mampela Ramphele and Wendy Luhabe, tell us that our shools are now worse than Bantu Education.

They should know. Bantu Education is what they had, before 1976.

But Angie Motshekga, MEC for Education in Gauteng, wants all homeschoolers to be qualified and certified teachers (of which there are fewer in the schools every day), all home education to comply with the discredited national curriculum, and all homelearners to follow programmes registered wih the South African Qualificaions Authority (SAQA). Those are only some of the "guidelines and criteria" the MEC intends to impose on homeschoolers in Gauteng.

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Asmal's tracks covered

Kader AsmalOn 4th October 2001, the then minister of Education, Kader Asmal, and the chariman of the Curriculum Committee, Prof Linda Chisholm, issued a media statement attacking the Pestalozzi Trust in a vicious bout of propaganda.

Strangely, the statement is now attributed to Chisholm alone in the government archives on the internet!

 
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Tuisleerders blink uit in matriek
Tuisleerders was die groep kandidate met die beste gemiddelde prestasie in die matriekeksamen van die BCVO.
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Sentenced to home education
Education Minister Naledi Pandor plans to send unruly and disruptive children home to be educated by their parents. Schools must provide them with learning materials.
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Schools 'urban war zones'
"It can therefore be estimated that children are more likely to be violated at school than at other places, making schools one of the most dangerous places for the small child..."
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