The Schooling Game was written to serve as a mirror for all adults involved in educating children: parents, teachers, and administrators. As with all mirrors, it can reveal details that are unpleasant. However, changing the unpleasant aspects of the image requires that we look closely and honestly and free ourselves from commitment to tradition.
Many children do not survive public education. They drop out, they rebel, they turn into delinquents, but they do not protest because they harbor the belief that they are in the wrong; that they are stupid and incapable. They learn this in school and they learn it early. The idea of public education is wonderful. The practice can be destructive.
The Schooling Game can help parents:
- Know the difference between schooling and education.
- Know how to read signs of distress in their children.
- Know how to help their children cope and compensate.
- Know how to best utilize the services of public education
The Schooling Game can help educators:
- Recognize that the needs of all children are not being served.
- Wake up to the abuses inherent in mass education.
- Stir up debate and promote change in education policy.
The objective of this website is to give readers a voice, to allow them to express their ideas about the book and about education in general and to give them access to some lists and tools shown in The Schooling Game.
