{"id":684,"date":"2006-07-01T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2006-07-01T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-01T17:27:00","slug":"684","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Witch school’ Opens<\/strong><\/p>\n

What struck me most about this article on Ed Hubbard’s Witch School<\/a> was not the culture-war angle (“Residents Petitioned and Prayed to Keep It Away”), but the sort-of positive response from Kirk White of Cherry Hill Seminary<\/a> at the end.<\/p>\n

One also could make comparisons with the Frosts’ School of Wicca<\/a> during its heydey of the 1970s-1980s. In both cases, I think that the “enrollment” figures were inflated, but in the case of the Frosts, the content was actually worthwhile.<\/p>\n

In the pre-Internet era, however, they took an awful lot of flak over the “mail-order Witchcraft” from traditional Witches–or from people who wanted you think that they were traditional Witches.<\/p>\n

When it camed to head counts, the number of people who inquired was huge. The number of people who completed a course was quite small, perhaps because the courses did require some work and self-discipline. <\/p>\n

You see the same thing in conventional online higher education. Students think it is easier than going to class. It is not. Ed Hubbard’s students are probably no different.<\/p>\n

Tags: Witchcraft<\/a>, Wicca<\/a>, Online education<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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