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“According to architect and academic Frank Locker, in architectural education, we keep repeating the same formula from the 20th-century: teachers transmitting a rigid and basic knowledge that gives students, no matter their motivation, interests, or abilities, little to no direction. In this way, says Locker, we are replicating, literally, prisons, with no room for an integral, flexible, and versatile education.”

And plenty of room to usher in the indoctrination du jour....

“Public education in the United States was not considered obligatory upon the founding of the nation. It became a method of assimilation and a framework for teaching civic ideals...”

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It's just an arm of the US Propaganda Industrial Complex. Children can learn what they acquire in school in one year's time with proper teaching methods. Give a child the theoretical knowledge of a subject and they'll figure out the rest on their own with good mentoring.

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This is why my children are homeschooled.

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Saylor has a free school and envisions that worldwide; says we would have many more better educated with PhDs without the gatekeepers at bricks and mortar

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