Stephen Dill

@NoOneYouKnow @michaelfelger @bigjimmurray @FelgerAndMazz @PunditReview It's private, but that was the date of the show I saw. May have been the first time since my first show that I did not take a bio break during Drums and Space. Those graphics make it hard to leave the show.

Pretty sure THIS is the Dead & Co. show @michaelfelger was talking to @bigjimmurray about during the off-air @FelgerAndMazz show yesterday. Road "trip" @PunditReview and @srdill? youtu.be/0Johbwaq_ZI?si…

Adultism isn't just common—it's the norm. Schools, laws, media, family structures are all built on disrespecting kids. You don't see it because it's everywhere. We all grow up disrespected.

Forced schooling isn't education, it's indoctrination. When you're legally required to absorb state-approved 'knowledge', you're not learning - you're being programmed.

@LACMA Is your website down? The home page loads, but attempting to get tickets starts the move to a new page and then times out. Is anybody looking into that?

The nice 'respectful' teacher teaches kids that they should tolerate mistreatment and violations of their consent as long as the perpetrator is nice about it. This sets them up for a lifetime of self-doubt and difficulty advocating for themselves in the face of friendly coercion.

I love this! The fundamental difference between public education and unschooling is here in this question.

Forced schooling is a human rights violation that is widely considered to be justified, but the justification is not based on any wrongdoing, as it is in prisons and jails. It is based on inhumane, unscientific and ignorant stereotypes about kids, not unsimilar to racism.

Adults seem to think that kids are dependent children until they become independent adults, but the truth is we're all interdependent humans all the time.

To trust children, we must first learn to trust ourselves… and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted. — John Holt.

@heartyhuman Have you read “Wounded By School” by Kirsten Olson? That and “Nurture Shock” talk about the pressure to be average.

Schooling is the worst possible thing you can do for learning to think, because it trains you not to think, but to parrot back the socially accepted paradigm or understanding of what's really going on. -- Clif High

@heartyhuman So true! Thank you for your commitment to steering away from coercive education.

Any nation that doesn't have democratic schools and a strong tradition of unschooling, cannot be considered to be a democracy. In a real democracy, education is about choice and empowerment, not compulsion.

@AlaskaAir my 2d trip on Alaska, 2d time you’ve forced me to check my $30 paid-for carry on when there are many poorly-loaded overhead bins with spaces. The inefficiency and denial of my experience offends me. This is my last trip on Alaska. #fail

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. -- Ivan Illich

The available evidence suggests quite strongly that school is bad for children’s mental health. Of course, it’s bad for their physical health, too; nature did not design children to be cooped up all day at a micromanaged, sedentary job. -- Peter Gray

Let's not lose sight of how much learning takes place in the school system. Kids learn that their interests don't count. They learn to not trust themselves. They learn to fear others. They learn to be egocentric.

Our whole world is caught in a cycle of abuse largely unexamined and unnamed. And at its root lies our dehumanization of children. Stinney Distro

'Compulsory' means 'forced' and force is violence, and what people call 'education' is violence against kids. To respond to that as if this were something subjective by saying, "I'm sorry you feel that way", ignores this in your face and very objective truth.

The Fifth Amendment in the Bill of Rights declares, "No person shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law." Nowhere in the Constitution...is there any statement that a human child is not a person. Yet children are regularly deprived of liberty. -- Peter Gray

Children are schooled to understand that despite how they feel about it, compulsory education is not abuse, and teachers are not abusers. And any child who disagrees with that will be punished.