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Growth And Mastery Come Only To Those Who Vigorously Self-direct. Initiating, Creating, Doing, Reflecting, Freely Associating, Enjoying Privacy-these Are Precisely What The Structures Of Schooling Are Set Up To Prevent, On One Pretext Or Another.

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

It's Been A Horrifying Academic Secret For Decades That The Children Who Walk Away With The Highest Formal Honors, The Valedictorians And National Merit Scholars, Have A Horrendous Performance Record In Later Life.

It Is Absurd And Anti-life To Be Part Of A System That Compels You To Listen To A Stranger Reading Poetry When You Want To Learn To Construct Buildings, Or To Sit With A Stranger Discussing The Construction Of Buildings When You Want To Read Poetry.

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.