Illuminata,

...so many people who are not involved directly in the business of educating children...
Just about everyone here has been involved very directly, but sadly, mostly on the receiving end, of the pathetic attempts that society has made to educate them. Hands up anyone who has never sat in class, bored silly with the subject in hand.

It's not cultural arrogance for us to pass on what WE know, and it would be cultural death not to.

Our kids found that it was the school that denied their American Indian culture (their natural father was Lakota Sioux) and lied to them about their heritage.