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I have a feeling - that was the point.

Perhaps he was alluding a school structured something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school

I have a few friends who went to the original Sudbury school, Sudbury Valley School.

One of them recently suggested that supplementing their school's non-curriculum with Sal Khan's online exercises (explained here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRf6XiEZ_Y8) might make for something close to an ideal education.

Do you feel like your friends got a good education? Did they feel like they did?

She got an excellent education in being an independent thinker and a very creative person -- but she's been using the Khan Academy over the past few weeks to learn Algebra II.

They have wireless Internet ;-)

Huh.