I have a horror of being in confined spaces.
You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.
I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.
As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (. . . )Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves. Mainly what school does is to keep the children off the streets and out of the job market.
You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.
Listening to your internal guidance system will lead to a rich, fulfilled, happy life. That's been my experience. . . and millions of folks can attest to it in their own lives as well.
Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.