Schools Don't Educate

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and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men. These schools were to be used instruments to scientifically manage a mass population. Schools, in the long run, produce formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.

The system we participate in is psychopathic. Children sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age and social class. They are cut off from the diversity of life.

One must suffer from sociopathy to want to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.

This system also forces students to move from cell to cell at the sound of a bell for every day of their youth in an institution that allows you no privacy. It even cuts into what could be family time by following you into your home demanding that you do ...

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