 Public schools are mass-producing illiterates and charging taxpayers more than $1 trillion a year for educational malpractice. That's exactly right. We've known for more than 150 years that this does not work. John Dewey took over the teaching colleges, started putting out these readers based on this quackery, getting this implemented across the country. But if you can't read, you can't educate yourself. That's the key. If you can read, you have access to the accumulated knowledge and wisdom