> After a long life, and thirty years in the public school trenches, I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them [[Dismantle the monopoly, embrace market principles, and trust families and local communities to define and their their own educational paths|manage themselves]]. > -- [[Dumbing Us Down]] [[Compulsory-government-monopoly-mass-schooling serves as a social engineering project to produce manageable, dependent, and incomplete individuals unfit for self-governance or a rich inner life]]