Manifesto

Teachers demand we swallow facts, to spit out on a test.

Pass.

Move to the next test.

Another year of ‘learning’.

Schooling is not education.

Never was, never will be.

It’s about control.

A slow strangling of the mind, a grinding into compliance.

You’re sent to school to obey, not to learn.

Compulsory schooling is here to stay.

You can’t reform it.

But you can avoid the damage it causes.

Build your own understanding, free from the wreck of schooling.

Abstractions don’t have to be confusing.

They are tools for your advancement, not a means to diminish you.

Reduction makes this possible.

Tracing back abstractions to everyday reality, making them yours.

To know them like the back of your own hand.

Reduction is not without effort, and there are no shortcuts.

But your knowledge will grow more rapidly with time.

You’ll build abstractions upon abstractions, all from a foundation that is rock-solid.

Reduction is a tool, built from experience.

A tool in your hands.

Strike out!

Become unbounded.