"I grew up in a state that had charter school mania, and it was always something like, some weird guy with a master's degree had a boner for Medieval Literature and his interpretation of the Origins of the University, so he'd start a charter school focused on Rhetoric, Sums and Figures, Swordsmanship, and Court Jesting."

I'm laughing because that sentence instantly reminded me of pg because of this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html

(Which is actually one of my favorite pg essays, but it's still kind of funny.)