Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life.

Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.

The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.

Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.

You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill.

There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.