Sometimes I got to talking to my passengers, and they'd soon ask, "what are you doing driving a taxi?" They thought someone with a very expensive college degree ought to be doing something more remunerative.

Intelligence is not genetic, it is cultivated. I grew up upper-middle-class, and my mother made an effort to feed us well.

John Taylor Gatto says [1][2] that public schools are specifically designed to dumb down the vast majority of its conscripts, which makes sense to me.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=OYzvBFsob0oC&printsec=fron... [2] https://libcom.org/library/against-school-john-taylor-gatto