Homeschooling
...cations are irrelevant a lot of the time. They're narrow groupings of facts that somebody at some point thought were important. They have no connection to the real world. Life is not broken up into subjects. Sceptics of self-led learning probably went through a traditional educational system in which "all the subjects" were presented to them. Do they know all those facts now? Did they ever really learn them? Are they going through life just fine without remembering exactly what the War of 1812 was about? It might not be the end of the world if a person doesn't learn "all the subjects." I have never learned anything I wasn't interested in or had a use for. I have remembered some facts long enough to take a test, but forgot them immediately if I had no use for them. One of the things that I don't like about traditional schools i...