This book is next to unreadable and keeps doing the exact thing that it critiques educators for doing. Also, it keeps conflating so much (like he conflates compulsory schools and academia without any recognition of the ways in which they're used—compulsory schools serve a purpose to stratify society and ensure that people do not move beyond their station, while academia is more often used to extract and gatekeep information from people). He also refuses to engage in modern cultural understandings of words (while educate, as a verb, does have a degree of top-down implication... it's also grown to have a horizontal implication in recent times—"I'm going to educate myself"—and education has often been used as a synonym for learning, rather than as a pure top-down process), as if we're still using the versions of these words from the 1500s or something.