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- School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only…
- Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other…
- Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
- The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called…
- School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily…
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