"If there was one thing which was really brought home to me at school, it was that I'm a loser," it read. "I detest people."
What surprises me is that more of this doesn't happen. Taking out my trusty calculator, I figured that between kindergarden and 12th grade, a kid spends about 21,000 hours doing school work -- in school or at home with homework.
Twenty one thousand hours that results, for most kids, in bare-bones literacy and in the conviction of being not-good-enough. And all this is happening during that period of our lives when the brain is developing the fastest, in which the personality is formed, in which there is both the hunger and the energy for learning.
I a m not saying that home schooling is better nor am I saying that it used to be better. I'm just saying that taking it for what it is, the public education system is a collosal waste of human energy and a great evil.
Joanna