Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community.

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.

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

I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.

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

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

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