The Economy Schoolchildren Currently Expect To Live

You Can Make Your Own Son Or Daughter One Of A Kind If You Have The Time And Will To Do So; School Can Only Make Them Part Of A Hive, Herd Or Anthill.

Children Allowed To Take Responsibility And Given A Serious Part In The Larger World Are Always Superior To Those Merely Permitted To Play And Be Passive.

Who Besides A Degraded Rabble Would Voluntarily Present Itself To Be Graded And Classified Like Meat? No Wonder School Is Compulsory.

• As Society Rapidly Changes, Individuals Will Have To Be Able To Function Comfortably In A World That Is Always In Flux. Knowledge Will Continue To Increase At A Dizzying Rate. This Means That A Content-based Curriculum, With A Set Body Of Information To Be Imparted To Students, Is Entirely Inappropriate As A Means Of Preparing Children For Their Adult Roles.

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!