Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

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.

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.