Like many of my acquaintances, I'm wondering whether public education itself is a bad idea. I'm wondering whether the whole enterprise hasn't rotted through, like an old house that needs to be condemned and razed. It's a melancholy thought, but the people who've had the run of the place for 30 years or more have thoroughly trashed it.

Michael Skube, The Atlanta Journal & Atlanta Constitution, June 4, 1996 column ("Living" section) (Thank you, Sharon Smith, Cartersville, GA)

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