In A Home School, The Kid Does

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.

Slowly I Began To Realize That The Bells And The Confinement, The Crazy Sequences, The Age-segregation, The Lack Of Privacy, The Constant Surveillance, And All The Rest Of The National Curriculum Of Schooling Were Designed Exactly As If Someone Had Set Out To Prevent Children From Learning How To Think And Act, To Coax Them Into Addiction And Dependent Behavior.

Children Allowed To Take Responsibility And Given A Serious Part In The Larger World Are Always Superior To Those Merely Permitted To Play And Be Passive.

Although Teachers Do Care And Do Work Very, Very Hard, The Institution Is Psychopathic-it Has No Conscience. It Rings A Bell And The Young Man In The Middle Of Writing A Poem Must Close His Notebook And Move To A Different Cell Where He Must Memorize That Humans And Monkeys Derive From A Common Ancestor.

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.