Quote by Walter Karp

The public school system: Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.

The public school system: Usually a twelve year sentence of

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This quote criticizes the public school system, suggesting that it acts as a method of mind control. It argues that rather than nurturing creativity and individuality, the system promotes conformity, obedience, and group thinking. The quote also asserts that the educational system undermines intellectual curiosity and transforms it into unquestioning submission to authority. In short, it portrays public schools as institutions that suppress independent thinking and personal growth in favor of molding obedient and compliant citizens.

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