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When Professor Emeritus Arthur Pendelton—a man who uses a pocket level to organize his bookshelf—declares war on a free-range “unschooling” commune, he expects to find chaos, intellectual decay, and poor hygiene. He finds all three, but he also finds Willow, a ten-year-old who sees right through him, and a guru who’s just a burnt-out tech bro. To expose the fraud, Arthur must become the very thing he despises, only to discover that the most rigorous education is the complete and total demolition of the self.