Exactly. The institution of school destroys the healthy relationship with intrinsic motivation, curiosity, self-discipline and relationships with others by creating an unhealthy environment and modeling highly pathological versions of the above as the norm.<p>While, ironically, labeling some children&#x27;s inability to accept and tolerate such conditions as (&quot;treatable!!&quot;) pathology.<p>A human child  who grows knowing herself, knowing how to determine what&#x27;s important to her, knowing how to meet her own goals, knowing her own value, and knowing how to gain support and resources to achieve what&#x27;s important, is very difficult to control or &quot;guide.&quot;<p>There are very few institutions which support gaining such knowledge, like democratic schools. Public schools do not.