Un-Natural

Tick off the conditions which cause a horse to go slightly crazy as you read and compare them to the familiar discipline of an average school:

"... Keep them predominantly idle, keep them apart from other horses, and you will create an animal that interacts with the world in ways clearly un-natural ... timid, crazy, undependable, bolting, bucking, avoidant, shying, etc. Keep a horse from accessing the wisdom of the herd and the wisdom of its own nature and you get a horse that doesn't know where it belongs in the world. Under such conditions wellbred horses with tremendous potentials end up living their lives as ... consumers instead of contributors."

--Equine Mental Health Association's Journal
Quoted in John Taylor Gatto, "Weapons Of Mass Instruction", p. 142