Teaching Is A Function, Not

I Don’t Think We’ll Get Rid Of Schools Any Time Soon, Certainly Not In My Lifetime, But If We’re Going To Change What’s Rapidly Becoming A Disaster Of Ignorance, We Need To Realize That The Institution “schools” Very Well, But It Does Not “educate”; That’s Inherent In The Design Of The Thing. It’s Not The Fault Of Bad Teachers Or Too Little Money Spent. It’s Just Impossible For Education And Schooling To Be The Same Thing.

You Can Make Your Own Son Or Daughter One Of A Kind If You Have The Time And Will To Do So; School Can Only Make Them Part Of A Hive, Herd Or Anthill.

We Could Encourage The Best Qualities Of Youthfulness - Curiosity, Adventure, Resilience, The Capacity For Surprising Insight Simply By Being More Flexible About Time, Texts, And Tests, By Introducing Kids Into Truly Competent Adults, And By Giving Each Student What Autonomy He Or She Needs In Order To Take A Risk Every Now And Then. But We Don't Do That.

Government Schooling Is The Most Radical Adventure In History. It Kills The Family By Monopolizing The Best Times Of Childhood And By Teaching Disrespect For Home And Parents.

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.