Man has produced a human environment which seems to necessitate the educating of the young. In this environment the young are no longer born equipped for the life-span ahead of them, as they once were in the rain-forests of Africa. They are born, like any creature, utterly alienated by this new environment, and we are prepared to believe that we have a way to gradually adapt them to it, a way passed down to us by our elders.

The problem becomes that this process of gradually adapting the child becomes all-consuming. We all want to say that this way served to adapt us, so there is little wrong with it, because there is little wrong with us, but how much of the weight of this conclusion is pure egotism? We are conditioned to compare ourselves, as well, so when we say, "little wrong with me" we may be merely comparing, which means we relish that there is much more wrong with many others. "I don't drink, smoke, take street drugs or go on meds, etc., so the system works if you want it to."

Must educating a child preclude leaving the child, his humanity, intact? He is born with a passion for everything but what man has produced, and we give him an interest in everything man has produced at the cost of this original passion. This has been demonstrated with 100% certainty in the laboratory. The conscious develops at the cost of what then becomes the subconscious.

Education as it is practiced (no matter how radical the school claims to be)is based upon the antiquated "empty vessel" theory, where each person is born completely devoid of everything, and it is the adult's job to fill the vessel with the mysterious cocktail of "All that is good", which begins with obedience: "Everyone will practice making friends with the teacher, liking the teacher, admiring the teacher, despite having to obey the teacher's fickle whim!" Extorting respect.

This is as destructive to the child as human progress is to the planet and its diversity of life. It is the best someone can do for a child once he himself has submitted completely to his conditioning. Someone has taken him from his childhood, and in so doing, has emptied his ability to cherish any child as he is, leaving the child to seem empty to him the way a rain-forest seems empty to the person who burns it down to plant beans in the ashes.

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