Curiosity Has No Important Place

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.

What's Gotten In The Way Of Education In The United States Is A Theory Of Social Engineering That Says There Is One Right Way To Proceed With Growing Up.

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.

Creative Work And Critical Thought, Which Produces New Knowledge, Can't Be Conditioned; Indeed, Conditioning Prevents These Things From Ever Happening.

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.