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.

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.

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.

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

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.

But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

When I was born I was loved and feared, people played with me but I never played with them. I loved them.

If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!

The only reason why our minds are controlled is due to the fact that we don't make the conscious effort to control what goes in them.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.