You Can Make Your Own Son Or

I Teach How To Fit Into A World I Don't Want To Live In. I Just Can't Do It Anymore.

The Premise Upon Which Mass Compulsion Schooling Is Based Is Dead Wrong. It Tries To Shoehorn Every Style, Culture, And Personality Into One Ugly Boot That Fits Nobody.

Self-knowledge Is The Only Basis Of True Knowledge.

Is There An Idea More Radical In The History Of The Human Race Than Turning Your Children Over To Total Strangers Whom You Know Nothing About, And Having Those Strangers Work On Your Child's Mind, Out Of Your Sight, For A Period Of Twelve Years? Could There Be A More Radical Idea Than That? Back In Colonial Days In America, If You Proposed That Kind Of Idea, They'd Burn You At The Stake, You Mad Person! It's A Mad Idea!

Close Reading Of Tough-minded Writing Is Still The Best, Cheapest, And Quickest Method Known For Learning To Think For Yourself... Reading, And Rigorous Discussion Of That Reading In A Way That Obliges You To Formulate A Position And Support It Against Objections, Is An Operational Definition Of Education... Reading, Analysis, And Discussion Is The Way We Develop Reliable Judgment, The Principle Way We Come To Penetrate Covert Movements Behind The Facade Of Public Appearances.