We also see here the underlying idea behind so much of modern child-centered education. If society is the problem because it perverts and corrupts the individual, then society’s institutions are the tool by which this is accomplished. If we believe this, then that means that we need to revise our understanding of the function of institutions in such a way that they serve the natural individual. In short, they become places of performance, of learning to follow and then to give expression to that inner voice of nature, not places where that inner nature is to be tamed and formed into something
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