A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies and police and various ways to punish deviants, but there isn't any way to punish a large number of deviants. It's too expensive to even try. So, the solution is to colonize the minds of children as they're growing up, so that they become their own police, and to report on others who are deviating.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

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 manage themselves.

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?