School Is The First Impression Children Get

A Lot Of The Strings That Hold Us Like Puppets Are Really Inventions Of Our Own Minds. I'm Not Saying That There Aren't Armies And Police And Various Ways To Punish Deviants, But There Isn't Any Way To Punish A Large Number Of Deviants. It's Too Expensive To Even Try. So, The Solution Is To Colonize The Minds Of Children As They're Growing Up, So That They Become Their Own Police, And To Report On Others Who Are Deviating.

You Either Learn Your Way Towards Writing Your Own Script In Life, Or You Unwittingly Become An Actor In Someone Else's Script.

The Shocking Possibility That Dumb People Don't Exist In Sufficient Numbers To Warrant The Millions Of Careers Devoted To Tending Them Will Seem Incredible To You. Yet That Is My Central Proposition: The Mass Dumbness Which Justifies Official Schooling First Had To Be Dreamed Of; It Isn't Real.

If You Live In A Material Universe Where Acquiring Things Is Very Important To You, Then Family Is An Absolute Deterrent To Maintaining That Sort Of A World, Because Family Involves Values Like Affection, And Sympathy, And Passion, And Types Of Pleasure That Lead Nowhere In A Material Sense.

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.