Nobody Gives You An Education. If You

I've Noticed A Fascinating Phenomenon In My Twenty-five Years Of Teaching - That Schools And Schooling Are Increasingly Irrelevant To The Great Enterprises Of The Planet. No One Believes Anymore That Scientists Are Trained In Science Classes Or Politicians In Civics Classes Or Poets In English Classes. The Truth Is That Schools Don't Really Teach Anything Except How To Obey Orders.

You Either Learn Your Way Towards Writing Your Own Script In Life, Or You Unwittingly Become An Actor In Someone Else's Script.

• As Society Rapidly Changes, Individuals Will Have To Be Able To Function Comfortably In A World That Is Always In Flux. Knowledge Will Continue To Increase At A Dizzying Rate. This Means That A Content-based Curriculum, With A Set Body Of Information To Be Imparted To Students, Is Entirely Inappropriate As A Means Of Preparing Children For Their Adult Roles.

Government Schooling Made People Dumber, Not Brighter; Made Families Weaker; Ruined Formal Religion With Its Hard-sell Exclusion Of God; Set The Class Structure In Stone By Dividing Children Into Classes And Setting Them Against One Another; And Has Been Midwife To An Alarming Concentration Of Wealth And Power In The Hands Of A Fraction Of The National Community.

Looking Back On A 30-year Teaching Career Full Of Rewards And Prizes, Somehow I Can't Completely Believe That I Spent My Time On Earth Institutionalized; I Can't Believe That Centralized Schooling Is Allowed To Exist At All As A Gigantic Indoctrination And Sorting Machine, Robbing People Of Their Children. Did It Really Happen? Was This My Life? God Help Me.