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At the centre Homeschooling outcomes are bimodal: families who care about academics beat conventional school outright, and families who reject standards leave their children knowing very little. Holds JLJoe Liemandt Read this korrent →

• Similar wording High standards are the key to a child's happiness, and a school with low standards cannot be a school children love. Holds JLJoe Liemandt
• Similar wording Education can raise how much everyone knows, but it almost never changes who is ahead of whom. Holds FDFreddie deBoer
• Similar wording In choosing what to learn, who is teaching it matters more than what it is, because your existing interests are fairly arbitrary and a good educator is not. Holds GSGrant Sanderson
• Similar wording Schools account for a tenth or less of the variation in how well students do. Holds FDFreddie deBoer
• Similar wording The recent fall in test scores is a rich-world phenomenon, and steeper in several European countries than in America, so it cannot be blamed on American policy. Holds FDFreddie deBoer
• Similar wording Putting the children most likely to succeed into one school is segregation, not educational excellence. Holds FDFreddie deBoer
• Similar wording Early schooling is not for accumulating knowledge but for booting up a brain, and physics does that better than any other subject. Holds AKAndrej Karpathy
• Similar wording Parents and teachers are not trustworthy judges of how intelligent a young person is. Holds BCBryan Caplan