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daf Some thoughts:
Wasn't it inevitable, when we first began exchanging our freedoms for protection from manufactured terrors which we bought the notion of cowering from, that we would reach this point in history where society itself has deemed us incapable of passing on the "ways of the world" to our own children; instead setting up institutions of "higher learning" in order to instruct them in proper perspective and assure that they take in only...correct knowledge?

(With as downright stupid and out-of-hand as we've allowed the situation of forced schooling to become, it may well prove that the system has an airtight case against us.)

In the final analysis, if experts and overlords are needed to make decisions for us because we are incapable of thinking on our own, then how qualified are we to teach our children ANYTHING?

And if we can't stop our own society from locking its children away for 6 hours a day to be brainwashed and bullied by strangers at our expense, then exactly how competent ARE we to protect them at all?

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm 		070724
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. You aren’t compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process children for a livelihood, even though one in every nine schoolchildren is terrified of physical harm happening to them in school, terrified with good cause; about thirty-three are murdered there every year. From 1992 through 1999, 262 children were murdered in school in the United States. Your great-great-grandmother didn’t have to surrender her children. What happened?

If I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you’d think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher? 		070724
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