Five
“The home-schooling movement has quietly grown to a size where one and half million young people are being educated entirely by their own parents; last month the education press reported the amazing news that, in their ability to think, children schooled at home seem to be five or even ten years ahead of their formally trained peers.”
-John Taylor Gatto,
"Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling"
Decades ago when I was studying for a Dip Ed to teach in Australia one of the texts was Ivan Illych’s Deschooling Society - it has influenced my thinking ever since. Many stories to tell there ☺️