Let a child suddenly become interested in pursuing a subject that strikes his or her fancy, and a teacher should be able to seize that opportunity.... Instead, the bell rings, and the little inmates are expected to turn off that spark of curiosity that fires constantly in six-year-olds, but which is progressively extinguished by a 19th century factory model of education that only considers such outbursts inconvenient, as they shuffle off to their next planned activity like spiritless drones.

Vin Suprynowicz, syndicated columnist (Mountain Media), April 28, 1996

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