Scott Keller on Education

Education, not reducation: help critical thinking

A: True.

Q: Do you agree that it's "Unfair to turn our schools into pulpit for any religion"?

A: True.

Q: Do you agree with "No privatization of education"?

A: True. Actual stances in addition to the above:

• Most education answers are with a non-profit, and local approach.
• Government can be in a facilitation role, but nothing more.
• Education needs to be fully customized for each student.
• Education needs to incorporate all learning styles.
• Education, not reducation.
• Education should be question-based.
• Education should help students perfect critical thinking.
• Education should be 50% or more innovation, rather than memorization.
• Our education system needs to be self-paced and mastery-based.
• There should be no time element to education.
• No one subject should hold a student back from progressing in other subjects.
• Money needs to be out of the education equation.

Strongly opposes teacher-led prayer in public schools

A: Strongly oppose. Individual prayer sure, but not teacher led. Private schools can be any way they want. I believe that schools are for learning, not being preached to or indoctrinated. Not just against religion, but all social agendas.

Communitize instead of government control or privatization

A: Another "no opinion", "none of the above", or "other approach". I oppose government control AND I oppose privatizing. Neither statism nor profiteering will help. I prefer "communitizing". Bring education local. The options I'd share would render the current education system obsolete and primitive.

We need comprehensive education reform, not NCLB

Unfair to turn our schools into pulpit for any religion

A: Opposed. I believe students should be allowed to pray if they wish, but I am a promoter of truth & fact-based teaching in schools. And I am a supporter and promoter of the first amendment--all of it. Religion of course can be taught, but it needs to be from an objective standpoint rather than a promotion of assumption to the same level as fact. Religious studies of a faith perspective need to be handled by parents and churches, not schools and governments. Schools and governments need to be only interested in facts and seeking the truth. It is fine for those who are religious to use their time to pray, but unfair, illegal, and unconstitutional to turn our schools into a bully pulpit for any or all religions, which is what would happen if we would allow school-sponsored or teacher led prayer.

No privatization of education

A: Oppose. ALL schools should be equally good. The entire education system needs to be overhauled. Education needs to be fully customized, include all learning styles, be 100% free (which can be done while at the same time reducing federal taxes and shrinking federal government through a bit of innovation), be mastery based rather than time based, be self-paced and teacher facilitated in each subject, and be geared to help students go far beyond their teachers rather than it being a poor transfer of insufficient knowledge as it is now. Deciding to turn over America's education to privatization is a cop out, and still isn't the true reform we need to see.