By the time a child is seven or eight, a LOT of personality characteristics are established.
EVERY pedagogist know and understands how etched in stone early childhood "education" and programming is.
Every parent that discovers a wrong in their child knows and understands their IMMEDIATE response to that element .. (No, you can't play with ____________ anymore)
Americans have been fed a lie about public school. It is not education but indoctrination .... socialist indoctrination.
My main point of disagreement with the author was his belief that the college system will collapse on its own, absent a societal cataclysm. I think it is more likely that, just like the K-12 system, it will continue just as it is, consuming ever more resources and facilitating less education.
When you have a huge system like “education” or “health care,” it’s easy to theorize about how better results could be achieved. However, it’s nearly impossible to move from “what we have now” to “something totally different.”