Merchants have no country.
Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
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.
Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.
Bullies are just ignorant.
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.