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

People are less than whole unless they gather themselves voluntarily into groups of souls in harmony. Gathering themselves to pursue individual, family, and community dreams consistent with their private humanity is what makes them whole; only slaves are gathered by others.

Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.

Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.

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.

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.