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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.

If You Put Fleas In A Shallow Container They Jump Out. But If You Put A Lid On The Container For Just A Short Time, They Hit The Lid Trying To Escape And Learn Quickly Not To Jump So High. They Give Up Their Quest For Freedom. After The Lid Is Removed, The Fleas Remain Imprisond By Their Own Self Policing. So It Is With Life. Most Of Us Let Our Own Fears Or The Impositions Of Others Imprison Us In A World Of Low Expectations.

Government Schooling Is The Most Radical Adventure In History. It Kills The Family By Monopolizing The Best Times Of Childhood And By Teaching Disrespect For Home And Parents.

School Is About Learning To Wait Your Turn, However Long It Takes To Come, If Ever. And How To Submit With A Show Of Enthusiasm To The Judgment Of Strangers, Even If They Are Wrong, Even If Your Enthusiasm Is Phony.

Schools Were Designed By Horace Mann And Barnard Sears And Harper Of The University Of Chicago And Thorndyke Of Columbia Teachers College And Some Other Men To Be Instruments Of The Scientific Management Of A Mass Population. Schools Are Intended To Produce Through The Application Of Formulae, Formulaic Human Beings Whose Behavior Can Be Predicted And Controlled.