To grasp the essence of culture, compare any person you know to a feral human.
Nature provides society, the sculptor, with some outlines in the marble, but all the intricate carving comes from the accumulated memories of eons. Our collective burdens—language, ethics, art, and more—are as 'natural' as the electronic circuits in your computer. In other words, what defines our culture is not inherent but constructed over time. This realization makes one marvel at the impressionability of our youth. They are raised from the status of apes to godlike beings by our collective intelligence.
With this in mind, it is astonishing that we take the current human condition as if it is eternally stuck, especially when we consider that we live under a cultural monopoly.
In the industrial world and beyond, every society uses schools to instill its ways in our children. Years of intense environmental control during the most formative years of their lives! Only the gods know how outcomes might vary with a different method.
This lack of inquiry overlooks the potential impact of alternative educational approaches. Imagine a method that doesn’t confine children to passive classrooms. Today's system has mediocre people’s judgment punishing deviation. It’s full of competitions for meaningless status symbols that reflect only the narrowest competencies. This can change.
People speak in longing of ages of prophets, heroes, sages, artists and inventors. Today we have the capacity to cultivate humans that are beyond the dreams of our ancestors.
What wonders await when the shackles of school are broken? It’s already starting…
This is risky to the mediocre people. You might see it as freeing, they will see it as subversive.