Self-knowledge Is The Only Basis Of True

Do We Really Need School? I Don't Mean Education, Just Forced Schooling: Six Classes A Day, Five Days A Week, Nine Months A Year, For Twelve Years. Is This Deadly Routine Really Necessary? And If So, For What? Don't Hide Behind Reading, Writing, And Arithmetic As A Rationale, Because 2 Million Happy Homeschoolers Have Surely Put That Banal Justification To Rest.

Nobody Gives You An Education. If You Want One, You Have To Take It.

...good Things Happen To The Human Spirit When It Is Left Alone.

The Shocking Possibility That Dumb People Don't Exist In Sufficient Numbers To Warrant The Millions Of Careers Devoted To Tending Them Will Seem Incredible To You. Yet That Is My Central Proposition: The Mass Dumbness Which Justifies Official Schooling First Had To Be Dreamed Of; It Isn't Real.

Growth And Mastery Come Only To Those Who Vigorously Self-direct. Initiating, Creating, Doing, Reflecting, Freely Associating, Enjoying Privacy-these Are Precisely What The Structures Of Schooling Are Set Up To Prevent, On One Pretext Or Another.