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Government Schooling Made People Dumber, Not Brighter; Made Families Weaker; Ruined Formal Religion With Its Hard-sell Exclusion Of God; Set The Class Structure In Stone By Dividing Children Into Classes And Setting Them Against One Another; And Has Been Midwife To An Alarming Concentration Of Wealth And Power In The Hands Of A Fraction Of The National Community.

Looking Back On A 30-year Teaching Career Full Of Rewards And Prizes, Somehow I Can't Completely Believe That I Spent My Time On Earth Institutionalized; I Can't Believe That Centralized Schooling Is Allowed To Exist At All As A Gigantic Indoctrination And Sorting Machine, Robbing People Of Their Children. Did It Really Happen? Was This My Life? God Help Me.

Grades Don't Measure Anything Other Than Your Relevant Obedience To A Manager.

I Taught Public School For 26 Years, But I Just Can't Do It Anymore. For Years I Asked The School Board To Let Me Teach A Curriculum That Doesn't Hurt Kids, But They Always Had Other Fish To Fry. If You Hear Of A Job Where I Don't Have To Hurt Kids To Make A Living, Let Me Know. The Truth Is That Schools Don't Really Teach Anything, But Blind Obedience.

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.