The Truth Is That Schools Don't Really

Nobody Gives You An Education. If You Want One, You Have To Take It.

School Is About Learning To Wait Your Turn, However Long It Takes To Come, If Ever. And How To Submit With A Show Of Enthusiasm To The Judgment Of Strangers, Even If They Are Wrong, Even If Your Enthusiasm Is Phony.

In A Home School, The Kid Does 95% Of The Work. But In A School System, Since It's An Indoctrination System, A Teacher Has To Do 95% Of The Work.

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.

Shouldn't We Also Ask Ourselves What The Consequences Are Of Scrambling To Provide The "most" Of Everything To Our Children In A World Of Fast Dwindling Resources?