Oh, wow... they really are posting it, chapter by chapter. Thanks for the link.
IMO the institution of "school" is one of the biggest problems we face in defending liberty. It warps minds, getting them used from an early age to thinking that it is normal to sit quietly in an assigned place and obey orders from strangers.
As you'll learn when you read The Underground History of American Education the new purpose of schooling - to serve business and government - could only be achieved efficiently by isolating children from the real world, with adults who themselves were isolated from the real world, and everyone in the confinement isolated from one another. Only then could the necessary training in boredom and bewilderment begin. Such training is necessary to produce dependable consumers and dependent citizens who would always look for a teacher to tell them what to do in later life, even if that teacher was an ad man or television anchor.As for the original question in the thread, I recommend Solzhenitsyn's GULAG ARCHIPELAGO. I read it when I was about your age and it definitely... expanded... my resolve against socialism.