"Even our elementary schools offer fewer and fewer years of a single teacher leading a class of students through all of the subjects. We’ve hired professionals and experts to separate the subjects as though humans can segment their lives into artificial compartments. Then the adults wonder why the skills children learned in one “unit” of the day don’t translate into another. By our methods of presentation we have taught them to think that they are unrelated. The focus now is on course content and professionalization rather than on the nature of educating a whole, young person who can only become a mature adult by spending time with other mature adults. The factory has produced the product we asked for—a student who
exists in the system and gets by until he is released from compulsory education. No adult committed to understanding the questions burning in his heart, and besides, the Discovery Channel presentations were more interesting than the substitute teacher."