We should become modern abolitionists, like the abolitionists of the nineteenth century who demanded the end of slavery, and for similar reasons. Abolition brings an end to the government's role in schools, which means four things: the end of compulsory attendance; the end of government control of content; the end of government control of who teaches; and the end of the government's practice of taxing some people to pay for other people's children to go to school. With the end of government's role, learning would flourish. I can't tell you how. No one can. I can tell you what I think is unlikely: classes every day in big buildings from 8:30 to 3:00, or, in the case of our local government middle school, from 8:13 to 2:40. The beauty and the power of freedom is that different people use their freedom differently to produce all kinds of results, results that they themselves, and certainly the rest of us, can't predict. I can make some educated guesses though.
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Dave is absolutely right, with the aid of the internet, home schooling with the occasional weekly tutor, is the most efficient system. Personal study is the dirty secret tecaches won't reveal, it works better. The problem with public education is that it has been, mostly, replaced with the information network and Internet robots.
Use the technology, Luke, use the technology.
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