...and he's mine for life.

Famously ascribed to Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order.

He understood the full impact of early education.

The deliberate narrowing of very youthful minds due to the dogmatism of their parents : the political speech of professors instructing adults (even young ones) :: binding the feet of a three-year-old due to the custom of her parents : the fashion dictums of haute couture on the stilletto heel. They are all crippling, but b and b' both involve adults making free decisions with potential to do them harm, whereas a and a' involve minor children whose futures are deliberately and harmfully limited in ways that may never fully be remediated once they reach adulthood.

18-year-olds can be vulnerable and naive, but they are not legally children. Either that, or we're going to have to revisit a lot of our laws. They can marry, own property without parental supervision, be drafted into the military, and vote in elections. Neither are they mentally or emotionally children. They can decide what they want to listen to, what they agree with, and where (and if) they want to go to college. If they haven't the nerve or the intellectual acuity to stand up to their professors, we have other problems to address.

A far cry from sending 5-year-olds to a school where, for 12 years, they never even come in contact with a concept essential to modern biology and its applications.

Think about what kind of voters they would grow up to be.

Regards--
Mary Anne