Kind of sad that you are left with that impression. I would attribute the style more to our over-polarized conditioning by social media if anything. But beyond

Kind of sad that you are left with that impression. I would attribute the style more to our over-polarized conditioning by social media if anything. But beyond the trigger points the author gives you enough of "depolarizing" references (John Gatto, Ivan Illich, Diane Ravitch) The article itself is just a (hopefully for most an enraging constructive rather than merely "anti-") starting point. My on the spot quick fix: This rigid and harmful "educational" system is best to overcome if children til the age of 12-14 are not exposed to it. Most can handle it pretty fine from then on. Starting with something resembling "Montessori pedagogy" and then just enter the formal system at the age of puberty. It has worked out pretty well for Sergey Brin and Larry Page, to name a few. Wojcicki's mother is also a very interesting example. Bezos as an different example was heavily influenced by his then retired maternal grandfather (space technology and missile defense systems at Darpa in the late 1950s; in 1964 appointed manager of the Atomic Energy Commission) spending a lot of his forming years at his ranch. And so on.