Raymond Moore: On early institutionalization
This reference is used to annotate "I would never send my kids to school" (2017) by Piotr Wozniak
Early institutionalization is surely a most pervasive form of child abuse. Americans compete with Sweden and England for the boldest rejection of offspring, like ostriches and turtles that by nature leave their eggs unattended in the sand. Our research findings over the past 25 years, as well as records from the period between the 1600s and the mid-1800s, proves that vision, hearing, brain development, cognition, and sociability demand later ages for formal studies--both at home and in classrooms--and require much more time with parents. And scholars note that older learning ages would save millions of children from learning failure (Bronfenbrenner). A glance at the U.S. figures for both child care and nursing homes tells us that in America, as in ancient Greece and Rome, the earlier you institutionalize your children, the earlier they will institutionalize you!
Quoted excerpts come from the following reference:
Title: The Best Schooling Possible
Author: Dr Raymond S. Moore
Date: December 1999
Link: http://www.libertymagazine.org/article/the-best-schooling-possible