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The Primary Goal Of Real Education Is Not To Deliver Facts But To Guide Students To The Truths That Will Allow Them To Take Responsibility For Their Lives.

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.

As A Writer, Politician, Scientist, And Businessman, [ben] Franklin Had Few Equals Among The Educated Of His Day-though He Left School At Ten. (...)boys Like Andrew Carnegie Who Begged His Mother Not To Send Him To School And Was Well On His Way To Immortality And Fortune At The Age Of Thirteen, Would Be Referred Today For Psychological Counseling; Thomas Edison Would Find Himself In Special Ed Until His Peculiar Genius Had Been Sufficiently Tamed.

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.

Schools Stifle Family Originality By Appropriating The Critical Time Needed For Any Sound Idea Of Family To Develop - Then They Blame The Family For Its Failure To Be A Family.