Sometimes I got to talking to my passengers, and they'd soon ask, "what are you doing driving a taxi?" They thought someone with a very expensive college degree

Sometimes I got to talking to my passengers, and they'd soon ask, "what are you doing driving a taxi?" They thought someone with a very expensive college degree ought to be doing something more remunerative. Intelligence is not genetic, it is cultivated. I grew up upper-middle-class, and my mother made an effort to feed us well. John Taylor Gatto says [1][2] that public schools are specifically designed to dumb down the vast majority of its conscripts, which makes sense to me. [1] https://books.google.com/books?id=OYzvBFsob0oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22John+Taylor+Gatto%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjln8PZ_6_NAhVWwGMKHbfdBqgQuwUIITAA#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=OYzvBFsob0oC&printsec=fron... [2] https://libcom.org/library/against-school-john-taylor-gatto https://libcom.org/library/against-school-john-taylor-gatto