The irony of learning about things like democracy and the bill of rights in an authoritarian school that suspended basic rights was not lost on me – and schools seem to be even more restrictive now.
But I have few complaints about kindergarten and undergraduate university education.
It was painful.
And we don't want to subject our children to that torture.
How else to solve childcare and socialization?
Mostly by doing the exact opposite of what the school system is today. Informal, friendly groups of mixed ages, no subjects or lessons, no exams, no marks. Not a theory, this works today.