Paul C doesn't know how right he is. Consumers are valuable and the dumber consumers are, the more they'll consume. The movie "Fight Club" touches on this a little bit but that's off the subject.
The Public School System in America teaches at a slower rate than TRIAL AND ERROR LEARNING. It always has and will never change. My mom used to ask me when I came home from school, "What did you learn today" and I would say "Nuttin" and half the time I was right. Half the time our whole class would go over and over something that the dumbest student was having trouble with. Students that pick things up fast are not separated from the herd, they sit there while the slowest (nothing wrong with being slow, but) kids get more and more attention and sometimes the smart kids have to do more work or do work OVER again if they did it too fast the first time around. Ever write a report in 1 day? What do they say? "Where's your rough draft, where are your notes, where's your outline etc?" NO WONDER we all read so slow and go over meaningless things 8 billion times. We were forced to do it for 12 years!
Home Schooling is 10 times faster than learning in school but the problem with that is you don't learn how to interact with people you don't like. THAT's what school is for. You learn how to deal with idiots in school, starting with your teachers. In Catholic Schools you learn at a very early age what HYPOCRACY is and you see everything from the inside out, not how everyone wants you to see things.
Teach your kids when they get home using PR.
