Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory - as we see at this moment in the United States - create a dazed population, a 'learned' population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Huge institutions producing costly services dominate the horizons of our inventiveness.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

We were kids that didn't have any education. None of our parents were in the music business or even college graduates. We didn't have someone guiding us. We were just uneducated kids from the middle of nowhere that suddenly had a band going around the world.

Education is equally important in one's life.

My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.