The Obligation To Amuse And Instruct Myself

• As Society Rapidly Changes, Individuals Will Have To Be Able To Function Comfortably In A World That Is Always In Flux. Knowledge Will Continue To Increase At A Dizzying Rate. This Means That A Content-based Curriculum, With A Set Body Of Information To Be Imparted To Students, Is Entirely Inappropriate As A Means Of Preparing Children For Their Adult Roles.

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.

If You Live In A Material Universe Where Acquiring Things Is Very Important To You, Then Family Is An Absolute Deterrent To Maintaining That Sort Of A World, Because Family Involves Values Like Affection, And Sympathy, And Passion, And Types Of Pleasure That Lead Nowhere In A Material Sense.

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.

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.