Teaching Is A Function, Not A Profession.

It Only Takes About 50 Contact Hours To Transmit Basic Literacy And Math Skills Well Enough That Kids Can Be Self-teachers From Then On. The Cry For 'basic Skills' Practice Is A Smokescreen Behind Which Schools Pre-empt The Time Of Children For Twelve Years And Teach Them The Six Lessons I've Just Taught You.

Slowly I Began To Realize That The Bells And The Confinement, The Crazy Sequences, The Age-segregation, The Lack Of Privacy, The Constant Surveillance, And All The Rest Of The National Curriculum Of Schooling Were Designed Exactly As If Someone Had Set Out To Prevent Children From Learning How To Think And Act, To Coax Them Into Addiction And Dependent Behavior.

Our Cultural Dilemma Has Nothing To Do With Children Who Don't Read Very Well. It Lies Instead In The Difficulty Of Finding A Way To Restore Meaning And Purpose To Modern Life.

What's Gotten In The Way Of Education In The United States Is A Theory Of Social Engineering That Says There Is One Right Way To Proceed With Growing Up.

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.