Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?

...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.

I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.

Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning.