Great minds beyond counting have pondered it. No great mind, in fact, has ignored it. Education is an assault. It is a fierce beast broken into the fold. All the other stuff, the stuff they dream of doing in the schools, is really a domestication, a taming, a housebreaking.
Education is a breaker of forms and habits.
It is the very opposite of what schools intend and require the students to expect, nothing more than a confirmation, a consolidation of what he is already, but more so, and more securely so, a life with all his notions, attributes, and desires intact, and more money. Everything reinforced, and nothing overturned or destroyed. We speak much of growth and development, but never a word of renewal. And a Mencken in school is a fire in the rubbish heap. So are they all, all the missing voices.