Bill: Children have an almost innate sense about the absurdity of the practices upon which the state depends. They understand the importance of the inviolability of property interests, and get quite upset when you try to convince them that 2 + 2 = 5. But, your daughter is only nine years old: if she is enrolled in the government schools, she will soon enough be subjected to the anti-reality conditioning that corrupts intelligent young minds. Fortunately, she will have a good antidote – in the form of skeptical questioning – at home. Would that all parents took on this responsibility on behalf of their children!

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