Government Schooling Is The Most Radical Adventure

I've Concluded That Genius Is As Common As Dirt. We Suppress Genius Because We Haven't Yet Figured Out How To Manage A Population Of Educated Men And Women. The Solution, I Think, Is Simple And Glorious. Let Them Manage Themselves.

Government Schooling Is The Most Radical Adventure In History. It Kills The Family By Monopolizing The Best Times Of Childhood And By Teaching Disrespect For Home And Parents.

Is It Any Wonder That Socrates Was Outraged At The Accusation He Took Money To Teach? Even Then, Philosophers Saw Clearly The Inevitable Direction The Professionalization Of Teaching Would Take, That Of Pre-empting The Teaching Function, Which, In A Healthy Community, Belongs To Everyone.

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.

The Primary Goal Of Real Education Is Not To Deliver Facts But To Guide Students To The Truths That Will Allow Them To Take Responsibility For Their Lives.