You Can Make Your Own

Children Allowed To Take Responsibility And Given A Serious Part In The Larger World Are Always Superior To Those Merely Permitted To Play And Be Passive.

The Truth Is That Schools Don't Really Teach Anything Except How To Obey Orders. This Is A Great Mystery To Me Because Thousands Of Humane, Caring People Work In Schools As Teachers And Aides And Administrators, But The Abstract Logic Of The Institution Overwhelms Their Individual Contributions.

Why Are You So Docile When You Give Up Your Child To A Government Agent Called A Schoolteacher?

I Urge You To Examine In Your Own Mind The Assumptions Which Must Lay Behind Using The Police Power To Insist That Once-sovereign Spirits Have No Choice But To Submit To Being Schooled By Strangers.

The Shocking Possibility That Dumb People Don't Exist In Sufficient Numbers To Warrant The Millions Of Careers Devoted To Tending Them Will Seem Incredible To You. Yet That Is My Central Proposition: The Mass Dumbness Which Justifies Official Schooling First Had To Be Dreamed Of; It Isn't Real.