fundamental beliefs
In The Bias Against Homeschool Posted by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) , the writer mentions that the bias against homeschooling relates ... to a fundamental belief that children should be educated in a classroom, along with their peers, though clearly the days of the peaceful one-room schoolhouse, or effective public school are more or less long gone. The phrase fundamental belief really caught my eye. I want to linger on it awhile. The word fundamental in this case can be best defined as profound, or being or involving basic facts or principles; "the fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental incompatibility between them"; "these rudimentary truths"; "underlying principles" So in other words the belief that children belong in a classroom instead of in the home is profound, ingrained, fundamental and rudimentary. This would mean that putting a child in the classroom is a natural and basic thing to do... that a child is as inclined to belo...