Yes, I do think both of those goals are realistic, although certainly difficult to achieve. I typed six or seven drafts of a comment trying to approach you fro

Yes, I do think both of those goals are realistic, although certainly difficult to achieve. I typed six or seven drafts of a comment trying to approach you from a convincing angle and realized that it was probably hopeless, because we likely have too many conflicting assumptions about society, morals, human nature, etc. to come to an agreement in a web forum. I would like to extend to you an invitation, and that is to read the following essay: > The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher by John Taylor Gatto: https://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html https://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html If you find this essay accurate and intriguing, consider sending me an email (address in profile) and I'll send you a large set of essays I've collected that discuss the same principle (i.e. that modern education is harming society more than it's helping). If you find the essay naive and inaccurate, then there's likely very little that we would agree on at all, and it's not worth a 10-message reply chain where we argue over semantics. (Although I admit I enjoy a comments section rumble, as my post history reveals.)