Most modern-day schools are designed on the Prussian model, optimized for mass management and social engineering, for industrial needs. [[Compulsory-government-monopoly-mass-schooling serves as a social engineering project to produce manageable, dependent, and incomplete individuals unfit for self-governance or a rich inner life]] Instead, every one should be empowered to educate themselves. Self-directed learning and learning in public are two cornerstones toward finding a passionate life with meaning and purpose. Knowledge is no longer scarce. We don't need traditional schools no more. What we need is to empower ourselves.