Schools Teach Exactly What They Are Intended

Child Labor Becomes A Label Of Condemnation In Spite Of Its Ancient Function As The Quickest, Most Reliable Way To Human Independence

Anyone Who Is More Interested In Human Beings Than In The Rules Is A Threat To The System.

Looking Back On A 30-year Teaching Career Full Of Rewards And Prizes, Somehow I Can't Completely Believe That I Spent My Time On Earth Institutionalized; I Can't Believe That Centralized Schooling Is Allowed To Exist At All As A Gigantic Indoctrination And Sorting Machine, Robbing People Of Their Children. Did It Really Happen? Was This My Life? God Help Me.

For Reasons That Are Both Fair And Foul - But Mostly For Fair Reasons - We Have Come Under The Domain Of A Scientific-management System Whose Ambitions Are Endless. They Want To Manage Every Second Of Our Lives, Every Expenditure That We Make. And The Schools Are The Training Ground To Create A Population That's Easy To Manage.

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!