Many Years Ago

About 20 years ago a colleague of mine was discussing her pregnancy and the forthcoming birth of her fist child. She was obviously elated with the prospect and as I recall, beautiful in her pregnant way. As we were talking, I made only one suggestion which was, 'whatever it took, whatever it costs, keep the child in private school.'

Today, I believe that this advice is even more important. Public schooling is stuck in a push to an "ever descending normality." That normality is one in which creativity of all types are eliminated for the sake of standardization. And, it is one that totally misses the larger point that the ultimate goal of education is to deal with development of knowledge, knowledge that has expanded exponentially at a rate that overtook education's established processes several generations ago. (We still operate our schools on an agrarian cycle for crying out loud! How creative is that?)

To surrender a child to such an educational system is to subject it to a slow, boring descent to the hell of the standard bell curve! RUN.