The Truth Is That Schools Don't Really

If You Put Fleas In A Shallow Container They Jump Out. But If You Put A Lid On The Container For Just A Short Time, They Hit The Lid Trying To Escape And Learn Quickly Not To Jump So High. They Give Up Their Quest For Freedom. After The Lid Is Removed, The Fleas Remain Imprisond By Their Own Self Policing. So It Is With Life. Most Of Us Let Our Own Fears Or The Impositions Of Others Imprison Us In A World Of Low Expectations.

Curiosity Has No Important Place In My Work, Only Conformity.

The Truth Is That Schools Don't Really Teach Anything Except How To Obey Orders. This Is A Great Mystery To Me Because Thousands Of Humane, Caring People Work In Schools As Teachers And Aides And Administrators, But The Abstract Logic Of The Institution Overwhelms Their Individual Contributions.

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

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.