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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers’ salaries. It’s the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.