Thanks to one of my most influential hero’s and best-selling authors and I learned a lot about how school punishes thew student. 

I learned that they specifically created an atmosphere where students had to sit in single-file rows and group activity was only encouraged during recess. 

I learned how school really kills and deplete’s our children’s creativity as the time passes and they get older. I learned how students are punished or looked at funny if they ask a lot of questions (which is crazy because asking also leads to better learning and more discovery) during class. 

I learned that the parents must take control and help their child learn or gain interest in an outside project or activity other than school so that they have more time to do something that they love. 

Now here’s the funny thing: yes our children of the future need school. What they don’t need is a school system that punishes curiosity. Curiosity is what helped create the computer I wrote this on, and the light switches throughout your house and the shoes you are wearing on your feet. 

We need a new school system and new teachers that will encourage students to make mistakes that they can learn from instead of trying to be perfect (honor role, academic plus, college prep). The best way to prepare a student for the real world or for college and being an adult is to find out what they love to do more than anything, and give them an entire summer to build run and maintain a small business out of it and to collect a small amount of maybe $500 from selling their idea or product. 

That alone can give them so many lifelong skills that a normal education would never give them. 

I hardly remember anything I learned in all of my years of schooling. 

Yes keep the kids in school for the time being. Just until they are old enough to break free on their own but help them find their passions all throughout and encourage them to build and create ideas out of that passion/passions. School stunts mental growth and encourages perfect. Side projects and passions boost growth and create real leaders that are truly happy on the inside.