[stretchwithme]

I completely agree. And when you look at what is taught and how, you may be glad that instruction is not possible for at least part of the day.

I've listening to the mises.org podcast of Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty and it deals with the subject extensively.

I've concluded that there really is no good reason to coerce people to use their brains. In fact, its impossible.

Maybe that's why Albert Einstein said “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

[tokenadult]

Full Einstein quotation:

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail."

It's embedded in more context here:

http://learninfreedom.org/Nobel_hates_school.html

[stretchwithme]

awesome.

maybe the best thing we can teach our kids is to not concern themselves with pleasing these people. that, and do our best to help them find answers to every question that they come up with.