This is the legend imprinted in every schoolbook, the invisible message on every blackboard. Our schools have become vast factories for the manufacture of robots. Robert Lindner School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind. Education directs all our attention towards knowledge and attaches no importance to understanding. Exposing children to this kind of influence means that they reach adult life having lost themselves, being entirely dependent upon external things - possessions, the opinions of other people, appearances, and so on.
All intellectuals complain about their school days.
This is ridiculous. Lord Clark I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result, I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this. One mother can achieve more than a hundred teachers.