Education is... doing anything that changes you.

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.