Educators expect and assume that parents will prepare children to live in the physical world. The problem with this expectation is that educators have children's resources all tied up. Children begin preparing for school at 6 o'clock in the morning and they do not get home from school until 3 or even 4 o'clock in the afternoon. By the time children unwind from what they have endured all day in the classroom, it is time for dinner. After dinner, children do their homework and go to bed.
Most parents have very little time with their children every day.
It is not possible for parents to teach their children the things which their children need to know about the physical world because school children and parents have so little time together. The prime education hours have been wasted in endarkenment and isolation. In forcing a child to memorize unrelated data bits, the miracle of a child discovering his or her own unique interests is lost forever. When children are ready to learn something, they do not need to be forced to study a subject. Children only need to be forced to memorize the unrelated subject matter that is offered to them in school because memorizing this information violates every law of nature.