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

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

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.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human.

It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

Propaganda is necessary only for the sake of money!

God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.