The myth of education is that it teaches the masses to think rather than forces them to
obey orders. In this sense, the word educate has been commandeered by cabals of
storm troopers who, dressed in the raiments of teachers and the garbs of various
professors, politicians, civic activators and consumer advocacy pressure fascists,
have given education such a bad name that millions of Americans are turning, in
disgust and fury, to illiteracy as perhaps the best method of escaping such horseshit.
Indeed, any brief sojourn in an American classroom is usually sufficient to send the
teacher reeling to the washrooms for relief from what she or he encounters.
The first discovery is that it has become impossible, by reason of the triumph of the
mediocre of the moment over dedicated of the past, to teach American children how
to form legible handwriting. Since this is the first requisite of the organic of all
education, its failure really needs rather close examination. Instead, the children are
told by the incompetents responsible for the deficiency that they can easily learn to
type and, indeed, most American schools are now filled with thousands of
computer-operated printers where pupils can display a new wrinkle of the process; an
incapability to type effectively. It should be obvious, however, that if the teacher cannot
teach the child to perfect the second most basic form of communication known to
mankind, then it must follow that she/he will not have much ability in transmitting any of
the more esoteric skills.