Joe's Fifth Idea: Justify Homeschooling
This was the last draft I submitted to my writing instructor for an Argument Paper assignment this first freshman semester at UAlbany. It has its issues but thought I'd post it here anyways, seeing as this blog has fallen into disuse since school started. We need some freshening up around here! P.S. Sorry for the lack of in-text footnotes, Google Drive couldn't transfer them over. Here's the doc in case you want to check sources easier: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IygbDO8m6oc9CIwJAGj2O95EKrcXJZB9S19Rp5SGeGE/edit?usp=sharing _________________ Educating Optimal Citizens: Can Homeschooling Produce Optimal Citizens? Joseph Hoffman 8 December 2017 Professor Newton UUNI 110 In his seminal work The Republic, the Greek philosopher Plato sought to determine what a just society would look like. On his way to creating the perfect society, he spent a maddeningly large portion of the text on how children ought to be educated; he believed that...