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

Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

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.

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

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