What's Gotten In The Way Of Education

I Teach How To Fit Into A World I Don't Want To Live In. I Just Can't Do It Anymore.

Close Reading Of Tough-minded Writing Is Still The Best, Cheapest, And Quickest Method Known For Learning To Think For Yourself... Reading, And Rigorous Discussion Of That Reading In A Way That Obliges You To Formulate A Position And Support It Against Objections, Is An Operational Definition Of Education... Reading, Analysis, And Discussion Is The Way We Develop Reliable Judgment, The Principle Way We Come To Penetrate Covert Movements Behind The Facade Of Public Appearances.

It Only Takes About 50 Contact Hours To Transmit Basic Literacy And Math Skills Well Enough That Kids Can Be Self-teachers From Then On. The Cry For 'basic Skills' Practice Is A Smokescreen Behind Which Schools Pre-empt The Time Of Children For Twelve Years And Teach Them The Six Lessons I've Just Taught You.

When You Take The Free Will Out Of Education, That Turns It Into Schooling.

I Urge You To Examine In Your Own Mind The Assumptions Which Must Lay Behind Using The Police Power To Insist That Once-sovereign Spirits Have No Choice But To Submit To Being Schooled By Strangers.