If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense.

God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half-but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is.

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.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.