Atlas Shrugged Excerpt

He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach the kittens hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on taking their fledglings to fly — yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, is not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.

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