Less "offensive" than blaming the failure of free schools on "lazy hippy communes". As children grow we start giving then a little more responsibility step by step and see how they do, before we move on to the next. Only our early industrial and pre-industrial cultures assumed that they were born as self aware mini-adults. That just led to more child abuse than we see now, as of course children are easily victimized without the proper adult supervision. Sigh. I don't even know why I'm still bothering with this -did Foucault or even Chomsky ever go as far as you seem to be? Answer that much and I might debate this a little further.
[ 04 May 2007: Message edited by: EriKtheHalfaRed ]