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= Introduction =
{{:Introduction:_Problem_of_schooling}}

= Printable version =

"''[[I would never send my kids to school]]''" (2017)

= Chapters =

Chapters that are missing in the original printable version from 2017 are marked with '*' below:

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== Brain science ==

* [[Learn drive]]: origins of human curiosity
* [[Pleasure of learning]]: good learning is always pleasurable 
* [[Pleasure of knowing]] * knowing things is pleasurable
* [[Pleasure of communication]] * communicating one's ideas is pleasurable
* [[Biederman model]]: how pleasure emerges in good learning 
* [[Education counteracts evolution]]: schools squander the blessings of evolution
* [[Natural creativity cycle]]: cycling changes between focused learning, creative exploration, and their mirrors in sleep
* [[Knowledge in creative problem solving]] * supply of new knowledge is necessary to sustain creativity
* [[Push zone|Optimum push zone]]: coercion is wrong, but there are minor exceptions
* [[Brain is a perfectly adaptable device]] * brain development is optimum in conditions of freedom
* [[Baby management]]: micromanaging a child's life is bad for intelligence
* [[How baby brain does not work]]: brain mythology makes parent scramble for early academic instruction
* [[Daycare misery]]: negative effects of separating babies from their moms 
* [[Stress resilience]]: acute stress may help resilience, while chronic stress is a brain cell killer
* [[Confusing creativity with ADHD]] * creative kids are wild
* [[Sleep deprivation amplifies the harm of schooling]] * sleepy kids may unlearn while learning
* [[Can coercion cause dyslexia?]] * coercion in learning may have awful side effects
* [[Myth: Evolution will help grow a better student brain|Evolving a smarter brain]]: pushing the brain beyond its limits has no evolutionary value 
* [[Precocity paradox]] * developmental delays may turn out to be good news
* [[School damages your brain]] * Many years of schooling result in maladaptive changes to brain architecture
* [[Feedback in learning]] * high quality feedback determines high quality learning of complex tasks
* [[Education cannot be constrained by developmental milestones]] * freedom is always optimum
* [[Circuit metaphor of the learn drive]] * curiosity is generated by a fragile circuit
* [[Chimps hate school too]] * history of language learning in apes highlights the failures of schooling
* [[Ban schools, not TikTok]] * schools sue social media to prevent doing harm to the youth. Social media should sue back to stop schools from hurting children!

== Memory ==

* [[Forgetting curve]] *
* [[Childhood amnesia]] 
* [[Toxic memory]] 
* [[Semantic learning]] *
* [[Asemantic learning]] *
* [[Semantic aspects of childhood amnesia]] *
* [[Conceptualization theory of childhood amnesia]] *
* [[How school turns off memory]] *
* [[Error of Ebbinghaus forgetting curve]] *
* [[Bad learning contributes to Alzheimer's]] *

== The system ==

* [[10 mortal sins of schooling]] *
* [[100 bad habits learned at school]] *
* [[Why schools fail]]
* [[Why kids hate school?]] 
* [[Schools suppress the learn drive]] 
* [[Learned helplessness vs. learn drive]] 
* [[Schools violate the Genius Checklist]] *
* [[Mythology_that_keeps_the_archaic_school_system_alive|Mythology of schooling]] *
* [[Schools are useless in teaching English!]] *
** [[13 years of school in a month]] *
* [[Learning history: school vs. self-directed learning]] *
* [[Passion and memory]]
* [[Unpleasant learning at school]] *
* [[Setting goals can change your life|Setting goals]] *
* [[School dropouts]] *
* [[Bill Gates is wrong about education]] *
* [[Futility of schooling]] *
* [[How school can ruin a life]] *
* [[How I invented perfect schooling]] *
* [[How schools can contribute to Alzheimer's disease]] *
* [[Would you have a heart to cage a puppy?]] *
* [[Glorification of schooling]] *
* [[Schools must reform or die]] *
* [[PISA fuels the education arms race]] *
* [[Mountain climb metaphor of schooling]] 
* [[Mountain_climb_metaphor_(example)|Example of the educational mountain to climb]]
* [[House building metaphor of learning]] *
* [[School vouchers are not about education]] *
* [[Finnish school paradox]] *
* [[Summer slide is an indictment of school]] *
* [[School start time]] *
* [[School choice in Sweden]] *
* [[The noose of schooling is tightening]] *
* [[Optimization trap of the coercive school system]] *
* [[The failed experiment of coercive schooling]] *

== Teaching ==
* [[Teaching is dead]] * artificial intelligence today is as boring as teachers, but it keeps improving
* [[Insidious coercion]] * proponents of educational freedom often swap coercion with a set of tools that can do even more harm
* [[Videogames are better than teachers]] * many educators condemn videogames which are a fantastic learning tool
* [[Don't teach your child to read]] * Reading became the chief harmful obsession of parents and education systems around the world
* [[Tunnel vision of school letteracy]] * compulsory curriculum is a strait jacket on creativity and innovation
* [[Adults are incapable of empathy in education]] * School system survives on adult ignorance
* [[Dangers of being a Straight A student]] * great students often end up unhappy as adults
* [[Curriculum lag]] * instead of letting kids adapt to the modern world, we force them to learn the rules of past reality
* [[Asemantic curriculum]] * curriculum is jam-packed with knowledge that has a destructive impact on [[conceptualization]]
* [[Abandon early math instruction!]] * early math instruction often leads to math anxiety in later years
* [[Direct instruction blocks pathways to great discoveries]] * modern schooling prevents the emergence of new Newtons and Einsteins
* [[Destructive impact of praise in learning]] * praise may undermine progress in learning
* [[Coercion in learning]] * coercion leads to inefficient learning and intellectual harm
* [[On the superiority of a rat over a schooled human]] * by observing a rat on an island we could learn how education should look like
* [[Learning to navigate uncertainty and complexity]] * freedom in learning is necessary to breed great problem solvers
* [[Don't teach your child to read]] * early reading instruction contributes to school hate and [[dyslexia]]
* [[Do we need teachers?]] * perfect education would replace teachers with intellectual companions
* [[Prussian discipline inevitably destroys education]] * school discipline destroys quality learning
* [[Myth: students are lazy]] * happy children are converted into lazy individuals by schooling
* [[Reading_wars_are_over:_Whole_language_vs._Phonics|Reading wars are over (phonics vs. whole language)]] * reading skills emerge best in natural reading
* [[Inherent problems of classroom schooling]] * classrooms are inherently bad for learning
* [[Crushing student convictions]] * convictions and prior knowledge determine learning trajectories
* [[Optimum class size]] * after a lot of deliberation, the optimum size is 1.4
* [[Never trust parents nor teachers]] * children are the best source of knowledge about their own learning
* [[Handwriting is dead]] * in digital age, handwriting declines in importance, but not at school
* [[Hating school and loving money]] * [[compulsory schooling]] produces sad societies with sad goals

== Socialization ==

* [[Optimal socialization]] *
** [[Socialization model]] *
** [[Social groups in socialization]] *
** [[Bullying]] *
* [[Optimization of behavioral spaces in development]] *
* [[Zero-sum gamesmanship]] *

== Homeschooling/Unschooling ==
* [[Child is always right]] * Optimality of the learn drive is hard to comprehend (see also: [[Optimality of the learn drive]])
* [[Schooled people do not understand free learning]] * Schooled mind perceives the world differently
* [[On freedom of education and freedom of information]] * Children should be free, so should we in accessing the world of information
* [[Ban on homeschooling]] * Evil forces representing dark ages of education are still lurking in shadows. Lawyers are often the most schooled people. As such, they want to school the entire world
* [[Elizabeth Bartholet: ignorant attack on homeschooling]] * Martha Fineman and Elizabeth Bartholet are professors of law who would want to deepen child slavery
* [[Hall of Fame of Educational Liberation]] * Some names will never be forgotten. Future of [[free learning]] will stand on the shoulders of many giants 
* [[Psychology 101 for Dr Phil: Unschooling FAQ]] * A comedy with a PhD can be particularly entertaining
* [[How to recognize a fake unschooler?]] * Opponents of unschooling are also guilty of manufacturing fake news

== Information science ==

* [[Modern education is a threat to the survival of mankind]] *
* [[School undermines intelligence]] *
* [[Learntropy]]
* [[Exponential acceleration in free learning]] *
* [[Proof: Internet makes us smarter]] *

== Politics ==

* [[Compulsory schooling must end]] *
* [[Declaration of Educational Emancipation]] *
* [[ABC of Education Reform]] *
* [[Education Reform]] *
* [[Reform: Health care vs. Education]] *
* [[Modern schooling is like Soviet economy]] *
* [[Utopian visions: Education via-a-vis North Korea]] *
* [[Children should have the right to vote]] *
* [[School curriculum is inherently political]] *
* [[Introduce Mandatory Adult Education!|On mandatory adult education]] *
* [[We need more bad schools]] *
* [[Peter Gray under attack from Larry Sanger]] *
* [[History curriculum can shape nationalist attitudes]] *
* [[School slavery will end soon]] *
* [[Woz in Polish Parliament]] *

== Health ==
* [[Dr Phil's failed mission]] *
* [[Coercive school system is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic]] *
* [[Daycare infections]] *
* [[I have ADHD and I love it]] *
* [[Scientists invent TikTok use disorder (TTUD)]] *

== Revolution ==

* [[Compulsory schooling must end]] *
* [[School_Reform:_Evolution_or_Revolution%3F|Evolution or Revolution?]] *
* [[Petition to End School Coercion]] *
* [[FAQ:_Ban_on_school_coercion|FAQ: How to end coercion?]] *
* [[Declaration of Educational Emancipation]] *
* [[Children should have the right to vote]] *
* [[Compulsory schooling can accelerate the collapse of civilization]] *
* [[End school slavery]] *
* [[Koniec Przymusu Szkolnego|End school slavery (Poland)]] *
* [[School slavery will end soon]] *
* [[Education as a human right]] *
* [[School is prison]] *
* [[School strike]] *

== SuperMemo ==

* [[How can I read faster?]] *
* [[How schools kill SuperMemo and incremental reading]] *
* [[SuperMemo does not work for kids]] *
* [[Spaced repetition does not work in a classroom]] *
* [[Serendipitous impact of mindless cramming]] *
* [[Incremental writing: Problem of schooling]] *

== Summary ==

* [[Summary]]

== Glossary ==

* [[Glossary]]

== References ==

* [[References]]

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= Your Help =

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