There is such wild idealization and blind faith in mass education as we know it. Teachers are underpaid saints who are raising the next enlightened generation.

There is such wild idealization and blind faith in mass education as we know it. Teachers are underpaid saints who are raising the next enlightened generation. Education itself is, of course (wink), an absolute unquestioned good. But is it, really? To me it just looks like 18–30 kids being herded and lectured at for 6–8 hours a day. What’s enlightening about that? We really ought to question mass education as we know it.