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Business-Based Learning
Why Business-Based Learning?
Why Business-Based Learning?
By Daniel Yordy
- Learn from reality instead of fiction.
- Gain a sense of ownership in one's own education.
- Provide for the costs of one's own education.
- Increase inter-relationships within the family and community.
- Enjoy a safe environment in which to learn the realities of entrepreneurship.
- Become a free and sovereign individual by learning inside of reality.
Learning from Fiction
- Much of modern schooling is fiction.
- Growing up in a classroom surrounded only by kids your own age creates an artificial mind.
- The real lessons learned in modern schooling are never discussed, though irrefutable.
- The real teachers in modern schooling are a child's peers, the warehouse structure, and the bell.
- Children are no longer a necessary part of our economic lives and therefore contribute little.
- The work of children is not valued, but trashed, contributing to their low self-respect.
- Much of what is presented to homeschoolers is based on a similar philosophy.
Learning from Reality
- People pay for what they value.
- One hundred percent performance is required at all times.
- Failure is just one thing that didn't work.
- An investment of one's self with a hope of return is the most powerful motivator we know.
- Every part of learning contributes to the whole.
- Strong self-respect comes from meeting people's needs.
Owning One's Own Education
- Each individual is a sovereign person, whose life belongs to him or herself. (For the Christian, this truth is a necessary pre-requisite before an individual can present him or herself to God.)
- We value anything according to how much it cost us: a "free" education has little value.
- When an individual adds value to another person's life, he or she affirms his own integrity and establishes a link with a larger community.
Providing for One's Own Education
- A good education is expensive.
- A good education should include many larger life experiences (sailing a boat, attending a professional stage presentation, going on a missions trip to help the poor, etc.) that cost money.
- An education based in reality can help pay for the costs of these overlooked but essential activities.
- Profit is the increase one brings to the world. An education without profit is a worthless education.
Increasing Inter-relationships between Family and Community
- Social skills are never learned from one's own peers, but from a larger relationship spanning infants to the elderly.
- The separation of children from all other age groups is one of the most destructive elements in our culture.
- We learn best from people who are real, people who make and craft and serve and do in the real life of meeting people's needs.
- Real community is defined by whole individuals creating value to meet other people's needs (called profit).
- False community is a forced environment wherein one's identity is determined by the thinking of the group (absolutely the definition of a school classroom, whether public and secular or private and Christian).
- Most of modern culture has almost no sense of real community.
Enjoying a Safe Environment to Learn Reality
- A teenager does not need to support a family, meaning he or she has room to learn from mistakes without going bankrupt.
- There is nothing like the reality of satisfying customers that teaches the mind to think and the hand to craft well.
Becoming a Free Individual by Learning in Reality
- Freedom is a positive value that is gained by a person's own self worth.
- Freedom is learned by exploring reality as a sovereign individual, making one's own decisions in real-life situations.
- Freedom comes from making decisions, failing, trying again, and living with the consequences of those decisions both good and bad.
- The institution of modern education produces children who are subject, not free.
- A young person who develops his or her own business will come to understand quickly that government control and taxation are the primary hindrances to freedom.
- The more individuals are involved in producing value for others (business), the more they see through the false claims of the socialist mindset where you get what others have produced without giving in return.
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