We are long past the time when getting an education meant getting a lot of data. Data, both true and false, is readily available; we have an app for that.
We are also past the time when exclusivity and expense indicated a a good school merely knowing who’ who doesn’t cut it anymore – and there’s an app for that too.
Those who manage data seem to do well these days; this requires evaluation of data. A good evaluator can spot identities, similarities and differences. He can observe what is and project into the future. He can be there. He can think.
There is no app for that.
For a young person to prepare for a successful and productive life, he needs to practice being there, he needs to build certainty on his ability to observe and project into the future.
A surprising number of these successful thinkers prove to be self-taught, homeschooled or the product of a free-thinking uncle with a penchant for blowing things up in his garage.
Somehow these lucky kids escaped the constant pressure to adjust to their environment, and preserved this quaint idea that they should adjust the environment to them.
They could be there, as themselves, form opinions, disagree and grow a healthy disrespect of institutionalism.
They didn’t buckle under the pressure to agree; their education was pleasant, unhurried and casual. This allowed them to engage in the business of learning rather than schooling.
They became brave, independent thinkers – there will never be an app for that.
See Creation of Human Ability R2-55