It's Been A Horrifying Academic Secret For

The Truth Is That Schools Don't Really Teach Anything Except How To Obey Orders.

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.

For Reasons That Are Both Fair And Foul - But Mostly For Fair Reasons - We Have Come Under The Domain Of A Scientific-management System Whose Ambitions Are Endless. They Want To Manage Every Second Of Our Lives, Every Expenditure That We Make. And The Schools Are The Training Ground To Create A Population That's Easy To Manage.

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.

As A Writer, Politician, Scientist, And Businessman, [ben] Franklin Had Few Equals Among The Educated Of His Day-though He Left School At Ten. (...)boys Like Andrew Carnegie Who Begged His Mother Not To Send Him To School And Was Well On His Way To Immortality And Fortune At The Age Of Thirteen, Would Be Referred Today For Psychological Counseling; Thomas Edison Would Find Himself In Special Ed Until His Peculiar Genius Had Been Sufficiently Tamed.