The clock and the calendar determine when and how long a child can learn each element. Well before the current attacks on schooling and educating, John Dewey and other philosophers put an end to this concept of education with their creeds of learning by doing and child centered education . Although the philosophy of education changed the formalism didn't. Children still gather in rooms of 20 or so, each one trying to do his or her own thing. The result is that neither teaching nor learning is possible.
Many schoolrooms become chaotic.
The educational system itself is now in age of confusion at the edge of chaos. It is ripe for a radical transformation. Such a transformational movement was initiated two decades ago when some families started taking corrective actions one family at a time. It was called homeschooling. Homeschooling In the beginning, only a couple of decades ago, homeschools were autonomous family units, each one setting it own curriculum, and providing its own supplies and services.