Self-knowledge Is The Only Basis Of True

Children Learn What They Live. Put Kids In A Class And They Will Live Out Their Lives In An Invisible Cage, Isolated From Their Chance At Community; Interrupt Kids With Bells And Horns All The Time And They Will Learn That Nothing Is Important Or Worth Finishing; Ridicule Them And They Will Retreat From Human Association; Shame Them And They Will Find A Hundred Ways To Get Even. The Habits Taught In Large-scale Organizations Are Deadly.

The Old System Where Every Child Was Locked Away And Set Into Nonstop, Daily Cut Throat Competition With Every Other Child For Silly Prizes Called Grades Is Broken Beyond Repair. If It Could Be Fixed It Could Have Been Fixed By Now. Good Riddance.

The Obligation To Amuse And Instruct Myself Was Entirely My Own, And People Who Didn't Know That Were Childish People, To Be Avoided If Possible. Certainly Not To Be Trusted.

By Bells And Many Other Similar Techniques They (schools) Teach That Nothing Is Worth Finishing. The Gross Error Of This Is Progressive: If Nothing Is Worth Finishing Then By Extension Nothing Is Worth Starting Either. Few Children Are So Thick-skulled They Miss The Point.

Genius Is An Exceedingly Common Human Quality, Probably Natural To Most Of Us.