"[M]andatory public education in this country … was useful in creating not only a harmless electorate and a servile la…"

"When American schooling stopped being primary for mental development and character training,.. it became a training g…"

"Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the State of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted — sometim…"

"Schools are intended to produce, through the application of formulas, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be pr…"

"Regimentation, methodization, systematization, standardization , organization, coordination, disciplined arrangements…"

"A large fraction of our total economy has grown up around providing service and counseling to inadequate people—and i…"

"Limiting the power of government, in order to liberate the individual, was the great American revolutionary insight. …"

"I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells …"

"The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them t…"

"Imprisonment schooling has no justification in science, common sense, or history. Get your children out of such schoo…"