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Shouldn't We Also Ask Ourselves What The Consequences Are Of Scrambling To Provide The "most" Of Everything To Our Children In A World Of Fast Dwindling Resources?

Do We Really Need School? I Don't Mean Education, Just Forced Schooling: Six Classes A Day, Five Days A Week, Nine Months A Year, For Twelve Years. Is This Deadly Routine Really Necessary? And If So, For What? Don't Hide Behind Reading, Writing, And Arithmetic As A Rationale, Because 2 Million Happy Homeschoolers Have Surely Put That Banal Justification To Rest.

It Was Never Factually True That Young People Learn To Read Or Do Arithmetic Primarily By Being Taught These Things. These Things Are Learned, But Not Really Taught At All. Over-teaching Interferes With Learning, Although The Few Who Survive It May Well Come To Imagine It Was By An Act Of Teaching.

Whatever An Education Is, It Should Make You A Unique Individual, Not A Conformist; It Should Furnish You With An Original Spirit With Which To Tackle The Big Challenges. It Should Allow You To Find Values Which Will Be Your Road Map Through Life; It Should Make You Spiritually Rich, A Person Who Loves Whatever You Are Doing, Wherever You Are, Whomever You Are With; It Should Teach You What Is Important, How To Live And How To Die.

Children Learn What They Live. Put Kids In A Class And They Will Live Out Their Lives In An Invisible Cage, Isolated From Their Chance At Community; Interrupt Kids With Bells And Horns All The Time And They Will Learn That Nothing Is Important Or Worth Finishing; Ridicule Them And They Will Retreat From Human Association; Shame Them And They Will Find A Hundred Ways To Get Even. The Habits Taught In Large-scale Organizations Are Deadly.