…how absolutely deranged it was, I now thought, for adults to command, and oppress, and tyrannize a child so, with complete disregard for his human nature. And for what? For some poorly conceived designs they for some reason have on his life! Oh, how many lies they told me about school. How many lies and falsities! From my most tender childhood, I was told (both in school and at home) that my entire life depends on it: that the grades I get in my seventh, eighth, ninth grade classes would determine my entire future. Oh, how many irrational fears they drilled into my mind! That I’d never get into college, that I’d never get a high paying job, unless I worked, and struggled, and crawled through the tunnels of their school curriculum.
— Roman Gelperin, The Master Mind of the Self-Actualizing Person