...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

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

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.

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

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.