Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

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.

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

I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

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

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