Reply #88: Yes, teaching kids not only how to learn,

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but to generate in them a love of learning, which includes constantly challenging them to keep their minds open to new, and even unpopular, ideas.

Like you, I am also primarily self taught and going on the premise that curricula is controlled by a branch of the federal government, my main question has always been, if you were the government, would you then teach students how to control you. So I asked a lot of inconvenient questions, especially in history and civics courses. I was pretty much a school teacher's worst nightmare.