False Hope Is Worse Than Despair.

The First Ten, Twelve Or Fifteen Years Of Life Are Excavated Of Inherent Moral Worth In Order To Accommodate A Regimen Of Basic Training For The Adult Years That Many Of The Poorest Children May Not Even Live To Know.

Children, Of Course, Don't Understand At First That They Are Being Cheated. They Come To School With A Degree Of Faith And Optimism, And They Often Seem To Thrive During The First Few Years. It Is Sometimes Not Until The Third Grade That Their Teachers Start To See The Warning Signs Of Failure. By The Fourth Grade Many Children See It Too.

A Culture In Which Guilt Is Automatically Assumed To Be Neurotic And Unhealthy Has Devised A Remarkably Clever Way Of Protecting Its Self-interest.

Even If You Never Do Anything About This, You've Benefited From An Unjust System. You're Already The Winner In A Game That Was Rigged To Your Advantage From The Start.

The Answers I Remember Longest Are The Ones That Answer Questions That I Didn't Think Of Asking.