I thought it was well written too. One thing though, and that always throws me off is that, while schooling in industrial society is flawed (in those seven gene

I thought it was well written too. One thing though, and that always throws me off is that, while schooling in industrial society is flawed (in those seven generations she alludes too), writers like her immediately idealize the bucolic alternative of hunter gatherer societies, as if there has not been a vast chasm separating the two, either measured in thousands of years (say in Eurasia), or measured by thousands of miles (say, when Thoreau sailed across the Atlantic). I would expect the children of the prosperous peasants in Breughel's paintings probably got beaten more than our children do now, although they grew up careless and free. Or the children of the proud guilds members in Rembrandts paintings, should we pity them because they were learning their family's trade at a young age? Or the gypsy girls of Renoir, was their childhood not more richer and adventurous then that of those stuffy Parisiens? The other thing, and it is unclear if this is related to the way children grow up, but tribal societies are generally violent. Raids, rape and murder, constant warring, torture, let's call it terror, is the bedrock of martial societies. How can this not be curbed by stunting these violent impulses from early childhood? To conclude somewhat pithily. The ship has sailed, our children will never grow up the way we did in some primeval state, not even remotely, mostly because that world is alien to us. Whatever revolution she's alluding too in the end, I cannot imagine it. At most, essays like that are a veiled advertisement of home-schooling, although I do believe the author did set her sights much higher than that.