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It's Been A Horrifying Academic Secret For Decades That The Children Who Walk Away With The Highest Formal Honors, The Valedictorians And National Merit Scholars, Have A Horrendous Performance Record In Later Life.

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

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.

• As Society Rapidly Changes, Individuals Will Have To Be Able To Function Comfortably In A World That Is Always In Flux. Knowledge Will Continue To Increase At A Dizzying Rate. This Means That A Content-based Curriculum, With A Set Body Of Information To Be Imparted To Students, Is Entirely Inappropriate As A Means Of Preparing Children For Their Adult Roles.

Although Teachers Do Care And Do Work Very, Very Hard, The Institution Is Psychopathic-it Has No Conscience. It Rings A Bell And The Young Man In The Middle Of Writing A Poem Must Close His Notebook And Move To A Different Cell Where He Must Memorize That Humans And Monkeys Derive From A Common Ancestor.