Will Smith's son Jaden Smith is reportedly so thrilled with home schooling that he wants everyone to drop out of school.
The 15-year-old American child-actor said that "School is the tool to brainwash the youth and if newborn babies could speak, they would be the most intelligent beings on the planet", Radar Online reported.
'The Karate Kid' star is of the opinion that "if everybody in the world dropped out of school we would have a much more intelligent society".
It is believed that he attended the New Village Leadership Academy, which his parents founded in 2008 with a curriculum heavily influenced by Scientology, but ever since the school was shut down earlier this year, he and his sister Willow are been home schooled.
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