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One Room School-house Symbolic of Home-Schooling

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What is a One-room School-house?  It is a concept, taken as a symbol.  What does it symbolize?  It could be somewhat symbolic of the trend of Home-Schooling.  It has multiple layers to what it means.  It stands for the old-fashioned values. It stands for a time long ago in America, U.S.A.  Long ago when common sense prevailed, in more simple times. When the world was not as it is now.  Maybe a yesteryear when things were not as complicated and chaotic.  We long for a Day like that: simple, wholesome, basic good times. Let's find out what it could be like if we revisit that remembrance.  Or call it nostalgia.  Take a look at some images which speak of it:

We use technology, but we don't want to depend upon it

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Technology is a part of the post-modern world.  This is the civilization we live in, circa 2018.  The inventors and factories are always creating more and new stuff appears every day, it is rapidly changing and always in-flux.  Yet we can decide how we handle this ever-changing situation.  Technology should never rule over us, the robots are not in charge. We also believe that the "articial intelligence" within the computers  (a.k.a. A.I.) will never be better than the human being.  Certainly not better than our true potential; and that is what we should be reaching, not for the lowest common denominator of life.  The lowest common denominator of the human scale would be people who depend on technology and computers to do everything for them.  In other words, they can't think for themselves.  We are not that way! Let's use our brains and think about it!! The BRAIN is a "terrible thing to waste". We accept technology and we use it....