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

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

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.

I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.

School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

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.

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