Education destroys the economy of home and community. These are left weak and vulnerable when people are no longer useful to one another. As this vulnerability grows, people fall into dependence on exterior economies and organizations. The local schools have no use for the local community ... — Prakash & Esteva, Escaping Education There is widespread concern regarding a specifically American and…
My interest in education [thinking, learning, and teaching] resulted from a series of failures in my youth. My failure at school. School failing me. My parents failing to understand me. And the lingering feeling of being a failure that haunted me due to the challenges of school, watching my peers succeed where I couldn't, and the pressures of familial expectations. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't a…