The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself–that is the first duty of the educator.

all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.

School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong,...

It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize “crazy”, and of course that’s its main focus

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm...

One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it’s incredibly restrictive – very, very restrictive. There’s so many types of intelligence,...

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.