All the more reason to Home School the children! ~ Ed.

I learned more after I barely graduated from High School. I thought I was dumb, but I was dumbed down, I thought I hated learning, and knowledge, but I craved it. I found I loved to read, and read many books, but a library that dwarfed my record collection. Years later, when I returned to my home town to visit my friends no one had grown, all were the products of the system, fat and happily ignorant of the world. ~ R.M. Ras

This reminds me of a time near the end of high school, I was in an Algebra class and the teacher was… found lacking. He would give us 100 problems every day. And the only example he gave was the first problem. He gave us pages to read, then just left us to figure it out.

The point is that I came to a correct answer by a different method, the answer was right, and I showed my work. He scolded me and asked me to do it again in front of him. When I did and it figured out right, I got in trouble for talking back.

If the education system was pure, I’d have been praised for thinking outside the box and finding a new answer. ~ D.H.