Nobody Gives You An Education. If You

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.

I Feel Ashamed That So Many Of Us Cannot Imagine A Better Way To Do Things Than Locking Children Up All Day In Cells Instead Of Letting Them Grow Up Knowing Their Families, Mingling With The World, Assuming Real Obligations, Striving To Be Independent And Self-reliant And Free.

School Presents Daily Exercises In Dis-association. It Forces Unwelcome Associations On Most Of Its Prisoners. It Sets Petty, Meaningless Competitions In Motion On A Daily Basis, Pitting Potential Associates Against One Another In Contests For Praise And Other Worthless Prizes.

The Old System Where Every Child Was Locked Away And Set Into Nonstop, Daily Cut Throat Competition With Every Other Child For Silly Prizes Called Grades Is Broken Beyond Repair. If It Could Be Fixed It Could Have Been Fixed By Now. Good Riddance.

It Only Takes About 50 Contact Hours To Transmit Basic Literacy And Math Skills Well Enough That Kids Can Be Self-teachers From Then On. The Cry For 'basic Skills' Practice Is A Smokescreen Behind Which Schools Pre-empt The Time Of Children For Twelve Years And Teach Them The Six Lessons I've Just Taught You.