As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.
Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and
compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it
instead into meek subservience to authority.