Government-Free Schooling
Schooling is constrained by government requirements to pay, attend, qualify before teaching, not employ children, segregate children by age, teach specific curricula, and administer specific tests.
Free ourselves from these constraints, and the schooling that individuals will ultimately develop and choose will deliver far-better performance, price, and value-added for everybody.
Building general-purpose expertise
People in childhood through early adulthood can learn a great deal, and have abundant time.
This extended time that’s available for learning would best be used to develop general-purpose expertise of three kinds. Reading delivers the best-available understanding from standout tutors in nearly all subject areas, as focused narrative streams, at personally-customized paces. Writing consolidates information and deepens understanding. Problem solving provides analyses that better-support actions.
An individual deepens his expertise the most in any given period of time through deliberate practice learning the hardest knowledge he’s ready to learn.
An individual’s learning time is abundant, but his learning resources are scarce. The challenge in schooling is to put scarce learning resources to their most-valued uses.
Freeing individuals to produce and shop
People who are learning are individuals, and choose their actions deliberately.
Early on, an individual doesn’t know much, so his choices are limited. Even so, he can already communicate what he finds interesting and when he needs breaks.
Soon, an individual learns some basics in reading, writing, and problem solving. From then on, he can tutor others.
Such peer teaching drove the initial great advances in literacy worldwide. Peer teaching lives on now, providing schooling that’s superior and efficient. Some of the world’s poorest parents pass up tuition-free government schools and instead opt for tuition-charging private schools that thrive on peer teaching.
Peer teaching will do even more good once the peer-teaching individuals who produce the learning are freed to sell this product.
Peer teaching is the first product that individuals can produce in volume.
Producing a product adds value. Selling the product yields earnings. The individual who added the value then shops for products (adding more value) and finally buys products. Producing is the action that increases material well-being.
Each individ
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