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“average men and women don’t really exist
except as a statistical conceit.”

“As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman,
Ben Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day —
though he left school at ten."

"Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his
peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.”

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“The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist
in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted
to tending them
will seem incredible to you.”

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"Schools train individuals to respond as a mass.

Boys and girls are drilled in being bored, frightened, envious,
emotionally needy, generally incomplete.

A successful mass production economy requires such a clientele.

A small business, small farm economy like that of the Amish
requires individual competence, thoughtfulness, compassion,
and universal participation;
our own requires a managed mass of
leveled, spiritless, anxious,
familyless, friendless, godless, and obedient people
who believe the difference between Cheers and Seinfeld is a subject
worth arguing about.”

“At the heart of the durability of mass schooling
is a brilliantly designed
power fragmentation system

which distributes decision-making so widely
among so many different warring interests
that large-scale change is impossible to those without a codebook.”

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