Antigen:
I'm pretty sure that the quote is properly attributed to the philosopher Santayana, depending on translation:
"One who does not know history is doomed to repeat it." [paraphrased]
I am sure that it is in "Bartlett's Quotations", and I mention this because specific references are always stronger than un-attributed or vague statements.
It is often interesting, also, to go to the actual source, and read the context. (Hey, you remember what a "book" is, doncha?)
TO "ANONYMOUS", IMMEDIATELY ABOVE:
Your critique of people on this site is about as petty and pathetic as you are, personally. You repeatedly make sweeping, bullshit generalities about "they".
I am a journalist-photographer, "on this site" seeking further information, preferably first-hand accounts.
I discovered this site about a week ago, after Google-search.
The fact of the matter is that abusive "treatment" is still going-on, victimizing kids by humiliation and imprisonment.
Pathways (Michigan, Indiana), for one example, which evolved from "straight", should be exposed for the money-grubbing, abusive cult that it is, because the kids imprisoned therein can't defend themselves legally.
Honest medical and psychological treatment are an entirely different matter.
It is also true that parents, (and insurance companies) however well-meaning, are being "bilked" out-of large amounts of money, all to further a POLITICAL agenda: Drug Prohibition.
The fact that you are too cowardly, or too lazy, to log-in and identify yourself, is "revealing" in itself.
Mike Stevenson (Mike007)
Ann Arbor, Michigan
mattblack001@yahoo.com