A civilization, to survive, must nurture the habits and abilities to study in its schools. A school is not a place where one puts children to get them out from underfoot during the day. That would be far too expensive for just that. It is not a place where one manufactures parrots. School is where one should learn to study, and where children can be prepared to come to grips with reality; to learn to handle it with competence and to be readied to take over tomorrow’s world, the world where current adults will be in their later years, middle or old age.

     A hardened criminal never learned to learn.

     Not all the orders and directives and punishments and duress will work upon a being that does not know how to learn and cannot learn.

L. Ron Hubbard