George P. Pelecanos Quote

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The r...

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.

Education is a system designed to make you feel inferior, yet they encourage you to accept it in order to be superior

If you feed a child, you strengthen him for a day; if you educate him, you strengthen him for a lifetime.

Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using different words, 'property taxes' are just a Mafia tur...

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.

Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their tal...