All Education is Spiritual and Ergo Homeschooling is Resurging

All education is spiritual and ergo homeschooling is resurging. Parent-directed, family- and home-based private education schooling – that is, homeschooling – is millennia old and has experienced a notable renascence around the world during the past 40 years. With respect to homeschooling, “Parent-directed means the parents have deliberately chosen to take responsibility for the education of their children, controlling both the education process and the curriculum (course of study). Family-based means the center of educational gravity is the home, with other resources being secondary” (homeschoolingbackgrounder.com, 2020). One of the key reasons that home education is growing is that more parents and more of the general public are recognizing that all education of children deals with values, beliefs, and, ultimately, an overall worldview (Weltanschauung). Because worldview is a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world, especially from a specific standpoint, it is, de facto, spiritual. This paper shows that all education and schooling is the teaching, training, and indoctrination of children, that the worldwide rebirth of home education came with a focus on spirituality, that empirical evidence shows that all education is spiritual and spirituality is motivating many homeschoolers, and, finally, that scholarly theoretical arguments against homeschooling involve the spiritual.

Survey On Directed Family Cord Blood Banking for Transplantation Among the National Cord Blood Bank Network in Italy.

Abstract 4195 Directed family cord blood (DCB) storage provides hemopoietic stem cell source for transplantation (HSCT) for families with an existing or a potentially future recipient with HSCT curable disease (D). The National CB Banks Network in Italy (ITCBN) has a leading role in providing public DCB service for high-risk families, in compliance to GITMO directives for eligibility criteria (HSCT curable D: malignant MD, non MD, inherited ID). To provide best cost-effective practices recommendations it is important to report on DCB procedures and HSCT rate (HSCT-R) among public Banks. By 12.12.2008 almost 1800 DCB units were stored in 18 Italian Banks and 104 (9%) issued for HSCT. The present survey aims at summarizing the over 15 yrs DCB experience among 5 ITCBN Banks active since 1997 (range 1990-1997), and including 670 DCB units. Results Preliminary analysis reports a 94% overall compliance to eligibility criteria directives, and overall HSCT- R for an alive sibling of 12% (63/522); the 63 HSCT were 97% matched, for curing ID in 84% and with 72 % overall survival outcome. Different policies among Banks were compared (Bank vs others: 1) eligibility criteria distribution : Bank PV06 DCB for MD <50% (42% vs 55-67%), Banks Rm04,R04 significant DCB for non sibling recipient (parent with MD) (17-24% vs 0.5%-2%), Bank T02 with significant (53/261) DCB for future sibling with ID (20% vs 2-5%); 2) Timing of HLA typing: Banks T02,FI03,PV06 with DCB following prenatal HLA (20-27% vs 0%), Banks FI03,Rm04,PV06 with CB HLA typed at birth (61-73% vs 23-25%). Significant HSCT-R (37/177=21 %) was reported by PV06 (HLA selection based storage). Lowest HSCT-R by Rm04,R04 (3/101=3%-5/98=5%) (parental mismatch). At T02 when excluding DCB for future sibling (low birth rate), and autologous (11 ID) HSCT-R increased from 6% (15/261) to 9% (15/170) Conclusion. Advice for public long-term DCB storage should depend on HLA compatibility, potential recipient, disease progression, and likelihood/ timing of using DCB; Italian CB Banks are actively cohoperating to find best public banking practices to ensure a CDB storage system that is ethical, cost effective and responsive to patient needs. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.

The purity of a completion

This note establishes two statements from R. M. Fossum's review [1] of a paper by E. A. Magarian [2]. Firstly, if A → B is a pure homomorphism (of commutative rings) then A[[x1,…,xs]] → B[[x1,…, xs]] is pure. Secondly, if Rn → R is a directed family of pure homomorphisms then ∪ Rn → R is pure. A consequence is that if Rn → R is a directed family of pure homomorphisms and if R is Noetherian, then ∪ Rn[[x1,…,xs]]is Noetherian.