Schools shouldn't exist. The problem with our society is that we waste too much. If we could maintain the same self reliant nature and values for equality that we have seen in our most succesfull societies throughout history, and the ability to co-exist with the natural world for the vast majority of our species existence, while we transition into our new digital age, than we could create a heaven on earth. We need to have the courage to return to the natural and fair simplicity of life. We can all agree that we are using too much of the earth's resources, polluting too much, have too much wealth discrepancy, and spend too much money on defense.  The problem is we haven't figured out how to reduce this out of control consumption in a way that we can all agree on. I have read pretty much all the Classical History books on my website that you can link to below, and the common theme throughout them all is that a society does best when we make everybody equal, yet at the same time enforce moral behavior by rewarding people forbeing the best at what they do..

Humanity's biggest mistake since the explosion of technology has been our tendency to cause our magical new energy saving inventions to make our lives require MORE of our time to keep ourselves alive, instead of giving us more spare time to perfect ourselves as humans. Instead of doing natural activities like taking care of ourselves, now we have to sell our most precious commodity, our time, to maintain an ever growing inneficient machine. That's why we feel empty and drained at the end of the day.

If we all know that we need to streamline society, that the question is, where to start? We can't just suddenly stop spending so much money on defense, because people will say that we need to defend ourselves against our enemies, the totalitarian regimes. We can't just suddenly make laws to protect our environment, because the people who rely on those industries will protest. We can't tax billionaires out of existence, because too many people believe that they deserve every penny of their fortune because they earned it all legally, and we are a nation of laws. We can't just change laws because people buy themselves into power. We have to find a special sacred space for our collective ideologies to reside; a natural place of peace and growth that nobody can argue against; a place where if you put the work in, you get your reward. If we can prove that a new way of living is better, than we can grow it person by person until we all voluntarily make the transition. The industry that I propose we start with that will cause all the other systems to follow like falling dominoes, is the Education industry. Simplifying the educational industry is the easiest way to streamline our society because it is the easiest to replace, because all we have to do is go back to our natural way of living. The way that the smartest people from history have always espoused. The way of self reliance and a well laid out system of meritocracy.

Streamlining the economy means designing a society that ensures that each citizen spends the maximum hours of the day improving their lives and the lives of the people around them. In order to keep people busy working on good things, we have to think like astronauts, and have as many uses for one thing as we can. We have to think like Steve Jobs, who through a cell phone in a tank of water and told them to make a phone that was so compactly designed that it made no bubbles. We need to think like professional athletes, who do everything they can to be the best at what they do, and only do extra things if it fits into THEIR schedule. What we need to do is replace school buildings with family based education. Just like it was in the ancient times.

With unemployment rising from robots, we can use this a the perfect opportunity to train parents to replace teachers and take the responsibility to look after their own children's education. In that past that idea wouldn't have worked, because parents weren't educated enough to be effective teachers to their kids, but now with the Internet parents ahave the resources to make themselves better teachers to their kids than teachers ever were. School was not the best way to educate children even before the Internet. I know I would be much more ahead on my website than I am now if I had been allowed to get started on it when I was a child. All I needed was for my parents to say, "I trust you, go for it," and I would have been off to the races, perfecting all of my skills so that I could play a part in the advancement of our society by exercising all of my interests to their fullest potential. Instead what I got was orders to sit in a chair all day long for five days a week, nine months out of the year for 18 grueling years from when I was five all the way until I finally finished school at 23 and all I had to show for it was a useless English Degree from an embarrassing community college. To read about my horrific personal experiences with school click here.

If everybody looked at school like I do, than school is nothing more than 17 years of prison where you don't learn anything. Apart from all the damage and waste of time that is perpetrated against the children, think about all the resources that we use to keep these death boxes going. There is all of the personnel that you have to hire, from the teachers to the janitors to the bus drivers, and everything in between like the principles and counselors and security. Then there is the expense of maintaining the buildings, and the grounds the buildings are on, and the buses. It is probably half our budget we spend keeping these schools going, and for what? The idea of school is to make competent citizens, THAT'S IT. We don't have competent citizens. After all this "education' all people end up turning into are a bunch of fat gray haired confused greedy old people who stupidly insult each other, showing that they don't even know anything and then they gobble up the rest of our tax dollars being taken care of because they never learned to take care of themselves correctly, and then they die, never having done anything to change the trajectory of the world for the better. God made us all equal so that we could all take care of ourselves, not with the idea that certain people get to hog all the wealth and power and tell everybody else what to do and think. When that happens, we go downhill. When we make everybody equal, we rise as a society. If you want to hear about all the historical instances of sharing being good for society and totalitarianism and wealth discrepancy click here.

I could have learned everything on my own, but that's me. My parents never would have let me learn on my own, and they never even understood the concept of them teaching me anything. I don't even remember either one of them even once asking to look at my homework. For any normal kid, having parents like mine would require school, but if kids have parents who understand the concept of home schooling, than people will spend their time from the BEGINNING of their lives treating technology the way astronauts do and making everything count and not using anything that they don't need, they would look at space like how Steve Jobs does and handy and ready to go, and they would treat time like how professional athletes do and make every minute count.   

Home schooling has to mimic history and nature and be designed as a meritocracy.  If we are to successfully make the transition from state supervised school buildings to parent controlled home schooling we need to make sure to keep kids competitive by rewarding outstanding behavior, so we need to tie all home schooled students together into a common culture where everybody knows what everybody else is doing, so we need to incorporate social media and personal websites into home schooling. The way to set up a system of home schooling that works with social media is by rewarding kids who excel, so they can inspire the rest of the kids to follow in their footsteps, and the best technology based and  home controlled educational system is called bike school, because it packs in all of the most essential ingredients to education into the most cost and time effective and productive educational plan... Had to abandon to link Montesquieu, that's why it may sound unpolished.

How I educate myself:

My educational philosophy and goal for myself is to have a complete understanding of the world around me, so I can be a good teacher and example to the next generation, so we can have an integrated world full of intelligent people who constantly strive to improve themselves physically and mentally.