h.l. mencken said quote the aim of public education is not to spread in light and said our it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level to breed and train a standardized citizenry to put down dissent in originality pushed. through. joining me now from ontario canada is philosopher and host of freedom in radio dot com stuff on molyneux so far thanks for joining us tonight thanks for i thought let's start from the basics are our children actually people deserving of rights too or are they the property of their parents yet children are people complete and full they are you know small human beings who need care and guidance and who need rules appropriately applied and my rule of thumb as a parent is to say will my daughter thank me for this in ten or fifteen years so if i keep her safe and protect it and brush her teeth you're going to say thanks for doing all of that if i hate her for questioning me she's not going to say thank you for that so i really try to guide my parenting and i think it's a good rule of thumb to say what will make you think before when t