[marktwain]

You are exactly right. What is weird and abnormal, is the idea of getting all the children born in a certain year from a community together, isolating them from everyone else, and indoctrinating them in the idea that the state is all powerful.

This is what public schools do, and it is one of the strangest "socializations" in the history of mankind.

[ladylib]

Read this article from a public high school senior who says pretty much the same thing you're saying. Students are being taught that the state is all-powerful:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/housley1.html

At least he can set his sister straight.