Teaching Is A Function, Not A Profession.

As A Writer, Politician, Scientist, And Businessman, [ben] Franklin Had Few Equals Among The Educated Of His Day-though He Left School At Ten. (...)boys Like Andrew Carnegie Who Begged His Mother Not To Send Him To School And Was Well On His Way To Immortality And Fortune At The Age Of Thirteen, Would Be Referred Today For Psychological Counseling; Thomas Edison Would Find Himself In Special Ed Until His Peculiar Genius Had Been Sufficiently Tamed.

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.

Teaching Is A Function, Not A Profession. Anything With Something To Offer Can Teach.

School Is A Twelve-year Jail Sentence Where Bad Habits Are The Only Curriculum Truly Learned.

What's Gotten In The Way Of Education In The United States Is A Theory Of Social Engineering That Says There Is One Right Way To Proceed With Growing Up.