Imprisonment schooling has no justification in science, common sense, or history. Get your children out of such schools if you want them to be educated. School means living up to the expectations of total strangers; education involves meeting your own expectations—GOAL SCHOOLS ARE UTTERLY INDIFFERENT TO.

— John Taylor Gatto The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling (2001)

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