I believe that each person has his/her own personal mission in this life and that we should be tailoring individual education to meet the child, not tailoring the child to meet a generic, predetermined information set. Is that hard to do? Yes! But no harder than cramming all the square peg children into round education holes.
Can you imagine if you had been allowed in your education to spend as much time as you wanted on something you felt passionate about? What if you were profoundly interested in learning about how to build things and you got to read and practice building things to your heart's content?
And then you realized that if you wanted to build cooler things you needed to learn some math and science. So you had an internally motivating reason to learn math and science. Would you learn math and science more efficiently? Absolutely! Are you going to spend your free time learning about it? Yep. Are you going to retain the information you learn? Of course. You have a reason that you are passionate about that will keep you learning and progressing. And my opinion is that if you have a passion about building it is because God gave you that passion because it would help you fulfill your life's mission and purpose.
Am I against public schooling? No! I am against the idea that everyone should be forced to have the same education and I am against the government determining what my children need to learn. I am infinitely more concerned with the long-term good of my children than anyone in any government, any school official, or any teacher. If parents are committed to providing the best education for their children and determine that public school isn't best for them, they should have the flexibility to take their children where they believe they will obtain the best schooling.
