In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

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.

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.

Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take outmore enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.

You path is only as limited as your imagination will allow.

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

Winning is all in the attitude!

My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

A worker voting for Mitt Romney is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.