> This is the point/philosophy of it. The child will choose to learn when they need and want to. You're missing the point. A child is ignorant of a great many

> This is the point/philosophy of it. The child will choose to learn when they need and want to. You're missing the point. A child is ignorant of a great many things and not competent to make many of those kinds of choices. That's not to say they can't have some input, but it's an abdication of your responsibility as a parent to let them make all their educational choices based on "when they need and want to," unless those choices are so highly stage managed that they're not really choices at all. > So if they are useless to the person it means an EXTERNAL party has made a judgement call on what knowledge is useful. What's so bad about that? The whole point of schooling is to benefit from the knowledge and maturity of that "EXTERNAL" party, which allows them to make better educational choices about a great many things.