> why education at all? It seems I addressed that in my post? > Would you apply your same approach/attitude to elementary school education? At what point is i

> why education at all? It seems I addressed that in my post? > Would you apply your same approach/attitude to elementary school education? At what point is it that we shift the burden to learn to the student? I'd say the ideal is that a person is a curious self-starter throughout their life. But we have to differentiate between different degrees ( as in `levels') of education. I think that everyone needs some fundamental understanding of the the world (history, physics), needs to be able to read and calculate simple things. And there are indeed schools who do it from an early age, like Montessori, in which students essentially pick their own projects. Also, we do give up on educating a large segment of the population eventually: not everyone has a PhD. But we're not worse off as a society, because the returns are diminishing quite a bit.