Homeschooling

Home schooling is not doing the standard government curriculum at home instead of school. It is a term that has taken on a special meaning - and applies to all of us - children and adults. It means continuous learning all our lives, by being open to new information - always learning by using keen observation - being alert to every new piece of data. It also requires continuous cross checking and verification of the mental models we are building up. Ideally at school we can be taught how this is done - observe, marshal the facts, analyse the facts, then gradually synthesise the results and thereby, from observation, form mental models that are the basis of all our reasoning. But at every stage we need to be prepared to throw the models away and restart as new observations contradict a faulty model.

Children in state schools are fed 'facts'. Except that generally speaking they are not facts, they are beliefs. Children are fed the Belief systems of a small number of 'experts' in various 'subjects'. And how do we know they are experts? Generally because they have told those who set the curriculum that they are. 'Clever' people can memorise rubbish and reproduce it in exams. Wise people question everything they are told. The world does not become a better place by having trained parrots. Why is this important? Because Memory and the rubbish it contains is the biggest block to spiritual experience there is.