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have no schools. In cities, we only have facilities for imbeciles —schools turning out savages.”
Kilpatrick was not so sure that all “elements of our society are capable of coping with that problem,” but he indicated sympathy with Hess’s extremist view.
Continued Karl Hess: “If kids were left out on the streets they would learn to read more effectively than they do in schools, where they don’t learn to read as an act of resistance.”
He called for abolishment of all compulsory school attendance laws, and warming up to the subject, called for an end to all compulsory laws at all.
“You’ve got to have compulsions in an orderly society,” Kilpatrick objected. “You can’t have freedom without order.”
A young, bearded man wanted to know if either speaker had any feelings about setting optimum sizes for cities. Neither had, although both agreed that some curb on scale might be helpful. Kilpatrick was the most skeptical on this point, stating that “we must have a common body of law to bind all the people together.”
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