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 education.
我们的先父们经过智慧的考量后决定，孩子们对父母而言是一种束缚。所以他们创建了一座监狱叫做学校，配备了刑罚叫做教育。

——John Updike, The Centaur
——约翰·厄普代克