"If you’re intellectually fulfilled by sitting in an office or a classroom, you’re literally retarded." - Vox Day
“When your people first came to our land they were trying to get away from those people at the top. But they still thought the same, and soon there were new people at the top in the new country. It is just the way you were taught to think.” –Lakota elder Dan, to Kent Nerburn, Neither Wolf nor Dog, New World Library, 2002 p.156 – 157 In this three part series, we’re attempting answers ... www.lewrockwell.com |
“Mass schooling damages children. We don’t need any more of it. And under the guise that it is the same thing as education, it has been picking our pockets just as Socrates predicted it would thousands of years ago. One of the surest ways to recognize real education is by the fact that it doesn’t cost very much, doesn’t depend on expensive toys or gadgets. The experiences that produce it and the self-awareness that propels it are nearly free. It is hard to turn a dollar on education. But schooling is a wonderful hustle, getting sharper all the time.” –John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling