"Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots." - Robert Lindner (1914-1956) "[T]he child should be taught to consider his instructor...superior to the parent in point of authority.... The vulgar impression that parents have a legal right to dictate to teachers is entirely erroneous.... Parents have no remedy as against the teacher." – John Swett, Superintendent of California Public School System (1860s) "[T]he result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils." – Lester Frank Ward 1897 "[The role of the schoolmaster is to] collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board." – Edward Ross, Professor of Economics, Stanford University, 1900 "A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." – George Santayana "A closed mind is bolted from the inside." "A general State education is a mere contr...