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

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

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

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

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.

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.

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.

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

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

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.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

You can't make me do nothing but die!

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.

Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan.' 'Do we have the right plan?' 'Not yet.' 'Do we have any plan?' 'Not yet.

The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bulls**t.

I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.