[Aquinasfan]

Unschooling

Meaning...?

Take at hazard one hundred children of several educated generations and one hundred uneducated children of the people and compare them in anything you please; in strength, in agility, in mind, in the ability to acquire knowledge, even in morality—and in all respects you are startled by the vast superiority on the side of the children of the uneducated.

— Count Leo Tolstoy, "Education and Children" (1862)

[r9etb]

Mr. Tolstoy's comment may or may not have been true for a feudal and agrarian Russia, but it is certainly not true here. You can look at incomes, illegitimacy rates, drug or alcohol abuse rates, number of teeth, or average Sunday church attendance. Pretty much any way you slice it, the folks who've gone to, and stayed in, school tend to come out ahead.