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 an education.
Source: George Caldwell, in The Centaur, ch. 4, 1963.
-- John Updike, (Mar 18 1932-2009), US novelist, short-story writer, poet; He writes about contemporary American small-town life, Rabbit, Run, 1960.