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

The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.

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.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

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.

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

Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.