Why do parents yield their offspring to an education whose criminal folly is the elimination from the child's mind of all that is not mediocre and mean, of all that does not conform to a noxious system of education? Dr. Sidis in his present book puts the blame upon the self-satisfied, smug Philistinism which is so rampant in this and other countries. He appeals to American parenthood to rescue from the clutches of tyrannical schooling the Genius which is latent in every child.
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