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Schools [are]...institutions Monopolizing The Daytimes Of Childhood.

Whatever An Education Is, It Should Make You A Unique Individual, Not A Conformist; It Should Furnish You With An Original Spirit With Which To Tackle The Big Challenges. It Should Allow You To Find Values Which Will Be Your Road Map Through Life; It Should Make You Spiritually Rich, A Person Who Loves Whatever You Are Doing, Wherever You Are, Whomever You Are With; It Should Teach You What Is Important, How To Live And How To Die.

We Have Been Taught (that Is, Schooled) In This Country To Think Of 'success' As Synonymous With, Or At Least Dependent Upon, 'schooling,' But Historically That Isn’t True In Either An Intellectual Or A Financial Sense. And Plenty Of People Throughout The World Today Find A Way To Educate Themselves Without Resorting To A System Of Compulsory Secondary Schools That All Too Often Resemble Prison.

In Our Secular Society, School Has Become The Replacement For Church, And Like Church It Requires That Its Teachings Must Be Taken On Faith.

Is There An Idea More Radical In The History Of The Human Race Than Turning Your Children Over To Total Strangers Whom You Know Nothing About, And Having Those Strangers Work On Your Child's Mind, Out Of Your Sight, For A Period Of Twelve Years? Could There Be A More Radical Idea Than That? Back In Colonial Days In America, If You Proposed That Kind Of Idea, They'd Burn You At The Stake, You Mad Person! It's A Mad Idea!