The Shocking Possibility That Dumb People Don't

Although Teachers Do Care And Do Work Very, Very Hard, The Institution Is Psychopathic-it Has No Conscience. It Rings A Bell And The Young Man In The Middle Of Writing A Poem Must Close His Notebook And Move To A Different Cell Where He Must Memorize That Humans And Monkeys Derive From A Common Ancestor.

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.

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.

A Lot Of The Strings That Hold Us Like Puppets Are Really Inventions Of Our Own Minds. I'm Not Saying That There Aren't Armies And Police And Various Ways To Punish Deviants, But There Isn't Any Way To Punish A Large Number Of Deviants. It's Too Expensive To Even Try. So, The Solution Is To Colonize The Minds Of Children As They're Growing Up, So That They Become Their Own Police, And To Report On Others Who Are Deviating.

The Economy Schoolchildren Currently Expect To Live Under And Serve Would Not Survive A Generation Of Young People Trained To Think Critically.