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Close Reading Of Tough-minded Writing Is Still The Best, Cheapest, And Quickest Method Known For Learning To Think For Yourself... Reading, And Rigorous Discussion Of That Reading In A Way That Obliges You To Formulate A Position And Support It Against Objections, Is An Operational Definition Of Education... Reading, Analysis, And Discussion Is The Way We Develop Reliable Judgment, The Principle Way We Come To Penetrate Covert Movements Behind The Facade Of Public Appearances.

Our Cultural Dilemma Has Nothing To Do With Children Who Don't Read Very Well. It Lies Instead In The Difficulty Of Finding A Way To Restore Meaning And Purpose To Modern Life.

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.

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.

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.