“ Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. ”
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the most of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?
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.
Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
