Obligatory post of John Taylor Gatto's article The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher: https://selfdirectededucation.neocities.org/pdf/JTG%20The%20Seven%20Lesson%20Sch

Obligatory post of John Taylor Gatto's article The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher: https://selfdirectededucation.neocities.org/pdf/JTG%20The%20Seven%20Lesson%20Schoolteacher.pdf https://selfdirectededucation.neocities.org/pdf/JTG%20The%20... A former teacher of the year, Gatto became very influential in early homeschooling movements. Parents or potential parents interested in education and schooling might also want to read Maria Montessori, and John Holt's books "How Children Fail" and "How Children Learn." We as a species actually know quite a bit about raising children, socialization, and education. I think we get duped by our surrounding society and government institutions hijacking those goals in service of control, indoctrination, conformity, and maintaining class and power structures. Schools serve just as much, if not more, to prepare children to work as "productive" members of a capitalist culture, to do what they get told, as they do to teach our kids anything or help them learn to get along with other people. Call me an anarchist or Marxist, I don't care.