&gt;Education doesn&#x27;t work if the classroom is full of kids who can&#x27;t behave.<p>Education doesn&#x27;t work, full stop. Or at least, it doesn&#x27;t do what you think it does. The point isn&#x27;t to provide a learning environment, or provide resources for students to learn. After all, education isn&#x27;t paid for by an equity slice of the alumni&#x27;s human capital. No, it&#x27;s paid for and administered by government officials, working on the behalf of employers and parents. And what they want isn&#x27;t bright, curious, and inquisitive people - they&#x27;re happy when they get them, but they&#x27;ve got much bigger concerns. Obedience, reliability, conformity, conscientiousness, and pliability are all much bigger things that they want to cultivate.<p>Like, it speaks to the success of the educational system that you think it&#x27;s hard to be a nerdy kid in today&#x27;s educational environment and that school is a poor learning environment for so many children, and you don&#x27;t immediately follow that up with something like &quot;and that&#x27;s why my children aren&#x27;t going to school&quot;.