A True Education

Written by Cedar Bennett at age 15

Admittedly, I have had a most unusual education. I cannot claim to have gone to one school all my life, nor can I claim to have gone to one high school. With this in mind, it seems particularly fitting that I should be graduating at age fifteen and moving on with my career, able to thumb my nose at the public school establishment which continues to insist that the more years in school, the better. It's a lot of rot, really. I feel (and I do thank California Ranch School and Carlynn McCormick whole heartedly for making this possible through home schooling) that I am perfectly capable of going out in the world and beginning to make significant changes in the right direction.

Because I have grown up with the invaluable study technology of L. Ron Hubbard, I have, I think, had a generally better chance than most of my peers in the few years in which I attended public school, and the few months in which I attended public high school as a Freshman. But the real truth of the matter which I believe is the reason for my early graduation, is my general avoidance of these schools altogether and my attendance instead of private schools employing L. Ron Hubbard's study technology. Then of course, the chance granted me by CRS to finish swiftly through home schooling and Carlynn generously allowing me to complete my final studies and graduate at the school itself. My opinion is that as soon as young adults are capable, they should be free to go to work and pursue their goals, rather than being locked within the stuffy walls of schools teaching insipid and often altogether irrelevant. Studies. If a child can proceed more swiftly than that, why not encourage the endeavor?

To stand on the soapbox for a moment longer, I should like to give a warning against the rather idealistic viewpoint of some parents that merely knowing how to study shall be enough to keep from drowning in the sea of misunderstood and false data which public schools are positively floating in. There is, in actuality, little chance to exercise the technology in such a situation, and if one is set on it, it involves hours of restudying the day's lessons at home on top of homework assignments. Indeed, it all contributes to the feeling that one is getting dumb ... dumb ... dumb. The point, in a round about sort of way, is I'm awfully glad I was spared this atrocity.