I can only speak for myself, but I could see elements of his Six Lessons in my own public schooling. Yes, some of my classmates' souls were basically crushed by public schooling, but I also know some people who were set free, climbed socially, were brilliant/inventive, etc...
The so-called "bad habits" he fears we learn from those six lessons aren't strictly bad at all, but they definitely become habits. We're talking about habits like "school bell" based time segmentation, taking x amount of time to [do work/go to next class/appointment], balancing homework with home life...
These habits could become tools for an employer/government/etc to control you for life (then they would be called "bad habits"), but methodologies like GTD co-opt the habits to return control to your own self-directed free will (and suddenly it's a "good habit".)
I can only speak for myself, but I could see elements of his Six Lessons in my own public schooling. Yes, some of my classmates' souls were basically crushed by public schooling, but I also know some people who were set free, climbed socially, were brilliant/inventive, etc...
The so-called "bad habits" he fears we learn from those six lessons aren't strictly bad at all, but they definitely become habits. We're talking about habits like "school bell" based time segmentation, taking x amount of time to [do work/go to next class/appointment], balancing homework with home life...
These habits could become tools for an employer/government/etc to control you for life (then they would be called "bad habits"), but methodologies like GTD co-opt the habits to return control to your own self-directed free will (and suddenly it's a "good habit".)
Think of public school as being like an API.