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I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves – and be free.

If you’re going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Why can’t teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.