Good ideas like education, automobiles, drugs to cure diseases and armies to protect villages have become so destructive because people have failed to recognize the limitations of their use. The human consciousness, for example, has severe limitations. As soon as people exceed these limitations, they begin to destroy the very thing they are trying to develop. Educators have taken the idea of teaching children too far. Children are starting school at too young an age, and are being asked to do mental things they are not ready to do.
Children spend too many hours in school and are subject to too much psychological duress.
Educators have introduced too many useless subjects and young adults are forced to stay in school too long. What started out as a simple system to help large groups of people learn to read and write has become a damaging, destructive monster. There was a time when childbirth was supervised by midwives and babies were born at home. Then, the doctors, the barber-surgeons, took over. When they did, the maternal and infant death rates increased dramatically.