In practical terms, what this means is that, in the nonpublic setting, any given child need not spend time sitting through a lecture he is incapable of comprehending or a lecture for which she has no need. Individualized education allows each child to proceed at her own pace and not to spin her wheels on material that she is never going to learn at all. Home schoolers find that an hour or two a day suffices, even for large families, at the elementary level. At the high school level, perhaps twice as much time is required to allow for more detailed knowledge, more complex problems, and more demanding writing assignments. Significantly, the more is better assumption starts from the assumptions that all children are created equal, that all teaching is equally effective, and that all work is equally valid for all students.
More time does, however, allow for more social control of children and less parental influence.
The more is better assumption is also applied to the financial aspect of the public school morass. If one computer in a school fails to educate students, then one in every classroom will succeed. If 1 teacher to 30 students fails to achieve education, then 1 to 29 will succeed. Taxpayers are made to dip more deeply into their pockets yearly for the education of children. The message is that if education is not happening, spending more money will automatically cause it to happen.