Freedom From School: And other forms of imprisonment

The development and education of our children is too important to entrust to a bunch of overworked strangers in a standardized system more appropriate to the manufacturing of automobiles than the cultivation and development of happy productive human beings. Our beloved children deserve more. They deserve to spend their formative years with people whom they love and have their best interests at heart. When children spend most of their formative years with people who love and know them, they are more likely to develop into happy confident and independent adults.

By opting out of the public school system, your children will avoid millions of advertisements and exposure to other commercial messages through their peer groups. They will be safe from bullying (by both their teachers and classmates), gun violence, sexual abuse, and chronic boredom. By allowing your children to self-direct their education, to whatever degree you deem appropriate depending on your individual child, they are far more likely to enjoy the educational process and develop a high level of skill in one or more areas that they are passionate about.

Human beings are extremely curious creatures with brains that are wired for learning. It is therefore terribly ironic that the very places we have created to teach our children have ended up being the places that actually hinder the learning process rather than stimulate it. When you allow your child to opt out of such a damaging system, you are giving them a great gift that only a very small minority of human beings are given in their lifetime. The gift of a free childhood. We should all be so fortunate.