dumbed-down

“WE breed water dogs not to bite game birds, we hood falcons to control them, when racehorses run too fast we “handicap” them with lead weights, and when students are in danger of independent learning so that they threaten to evade being conditioned into mindless consumers and docile, unquestioning employees of giant corporations, we subject them to ‘schooling’.” https://www.sing-prayer.org/mainstream-studies-of-dumbed-down-compulsory-universal-schooling

Sounds like “Harrison Bergeron” by Vonnegut, no? I see the truth of this statement reflected in my student, a self-directed, homeschooled, independent thinker. I have learned as much from him as he has learned from me, and he is nine.