School Is The First Impression Children Get

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.

The Economy Schoolchildren Currently Expect To Live Under And Serve Would Not Survive A Generation Of Young People Trained To Think Critically.

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.

God Was Pitched Out Of Forced Schooling On His Ear After Wwii. This Wasn't Because Of Any Constitutional Proscription-there Was None That Anyone Had Been Able To Find In Over A Century And A Half-but Because The Political State And Corporate Economy Considered The Western Spiritual Tradition Too Dangerous A Competitor. And It Is.

The Truth Is That Schools Don't Really Teach Anything Except How To Obey Orders. This Is A Great Mystery To Me Because Thousands Of Humane, Caring People Work In Schools As Teachers And Aides And Administrators, But The Abstract Logic Of The Institution Overwhelms Their Individual Contributions.