The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

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.

the most random things get her way too full of love

I would say that jazz is my own language.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and I have nothing to give ye!" He honestly thought it mattered.

And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.

I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."

I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.