Genius Is An Exceedingly Common

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.

Do We Really Need School? I Don't Mean Education, Just Forced Schooling: Six Classes A Day, Five Days A Week, Nine Months A Year, For Twelve Years. Is This Deadly Routine Really Necessary? And If So, For What? Don't Hide Behind Reading, Writing, And Arithmetic As A Rationale, Because 2 Million Happy Homeschoolers Have Surely Put That Banal Justification To Rest.

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

This Was Once A Land Where Every Sane Person Knew How To Build A Shelter, Grow Food, And Entertain One Another. Now We Have Been Rendered Permanent Children. It’s The Architects Of Forced Schooling Who Are Responsible For That.

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.