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> > I don't have to break into youngest's 
> time.  t


This is an important point.  Here there are regular things that need doing 
and everyone knows it.   Other things that come up are discussed for the day 
or 
the week and everyone agrees on how it is to be done.  That's it.  I don't 
recall having to remind any of the children to do their tasks.  In fact when 
one 
child or adult is away, the others fill in the missing tasks without being 
told or reminded.  So there is not breaking into their time or interrupting 
their 
attention.  They plan that for themselves.

People have no idea how deep the roots of the conditioning go, nor the 
capacity to accept it if they did.  Under the personal and group management 
paradigm 
Lynda and I have outlined the individual develops a very keen sense of 
'enough'.  It's lacking in the general population.  

I've always suggested this proposition to dedicated schoolers.  You say that 
a student on X grade level should be able to spell a certain body of words, 
for an example, or do math on a certain level.  Offer the student this 
option:  
If you can demonstrate during the first week of school that you possess all 
those skills, you can pass all those tasks, you can take the rest of the year 
off.

No, it wouldn't work to say you go on to the next grade.  The motivation has 
to be more stark and real.  If you show you can do all the academic skills 
and 
have the knowledge we (supposedly) have you in the fifth grade for, you can 
take the rest of the year off, sleep late, read what you want, do wii games, 
take walks, whatever.

I can tell you what the result would be, some classrooms would be mighty 
sparce!

But the way schooling conditions the psyche is that you are going to be there 
in class for most of your childhood, might as well get used to it and make 
the best of it.  Nothing you do will allow you to escape the sentence.  
Nothing.

13 years of this and everyone is perfectly willing, in fact determined on a 
gut level, that the norm is to work 40 hours or more a week for as much money 
as you can get.  Nothing you can do about it, ordained by God no doubt.  And 
since you are stuck there until you retire, why not make the best of it and 
spend the money on the things we say you ought to have.

It is such a different life to say, "I've worked 18 hours this week and I 
have all the money I need so I that's all I'm doing."
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