The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!

The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

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

This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.