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

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.

If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense.

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

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

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

Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.