John Updike Quote

The Founding Fathers... in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. I am a paid keeper of Society's unusables — the lame, the halt, the insane, and the ignorant.

Ch. 4 - The Centaur (1963)