The ultimate goal of eduaction should be to teach a kid *how to learn on his own* so that he no longer needs an "educcation" in the traditional sense-- something forced upon him [[The purpose of school is to teach students how to learn]] > Schools reached their maximum efficiency long ago, meaning that“more” for schools will make things worse, instead of better. > -- [[Dumbing Us Down]] > True education, fostering unique individuals integrated into families and communities, requires *less* interference from the institutional network of schooling. > -- [[Dumbing Us Down]] [[Schooling and education are mutually exclusive]] ## Teach your own, and fight against schooling > School trains children to be employees and consumers; teach your own to be leaders and adventurers. School trains children to obey reflexively; teach your own to think critically and independently. Well-schooled kids have a low threshold for boredom; help your own to develop an inner life so that they’ll never be bored. Urge them to take on the serious material, the grown-up material, in history, literature, philosophy, music, art, economics, theology—all the stuff schoolteachers know well enough to avoid. Challenge your kids with plenty of solitude so that they can learn to enjoy their own company, to conduct inner dialogues. Well-schooled people are conditioned to dread being alone; they seek constant companionship through the TV, the computer, the cell phone, and through shallow friendships quickly acquired, quickly abandoned. Your children should have a more important life, and they can.