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

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.

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

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

Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

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.