 Unlike western practices with a standard curriculum, land-based pedagogy is based on the idea of abstaining from imposing an agenda to another living being.Intelligence is considered a "consensual engagement" where children consent to learning and having a set curriculum is thought to normalize dominance and non-consent within schooling and inevitably extended to societal norms.Western style education is seen as coercive because in order to achieve something, one must follow the set guidelines and curriculum enforced by educators.