In this episode I explore the implicit beliefs that must be held in order to advocate for compulsory schooling, how those become the field, the ground on which schooling takes place. I further explore the goals of a state compulsory school system and hope to show how real learning is self directed while state compulsory schooling is antithetical to learning and growth.

Source reading:

Anxiety by Fritz Riemann

The Drama of Being a Child by Alice Miller

Education - Free and Compulsory by Murray N. Rothbard

Compulsory Miseducation by Paul Goodman

Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto

Freedom's Progress? by Gerard Casey