Creative Work And Critical Thought, Which Produces

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.

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

School Is A Twelve-year Jail Sentence Where Bad Habits Are The Only Curriculum Truly Learned.

Children Do Not Learn In School; They Are Babysat. It Takes Maybe 50 Hours To Teach Reading, Writing, And Arithmetic. After That, Students Can Teach Themselves. Mainly What School Does Is To Keep The Children Off The Streets And Out Of The Job Market.

It Was Never Factually True That Young People Learn To Read Or Do Arithmetic Primarily By Being Taught These Things. These Things Are Learned, But Not Really Taught At All. Over-teaching Interferes With Learning, Although The Few Who Survive It May Well Come To Imagine It Was By An Act Of Teaching.