“In our times the only valid diploma is update.”

“Children under three and four and insane persons, especially idiots, are usually hard to hypnotize. This seems due to the impossibility of getting them to fix their attention continually on the idea of the coming trance. All ages above infancy are probably equally hypnotizable, as are all races and both sexes.”

A school administrator asked, “How would you feel if you see one of your classmates go by in a limousine while you’re walking up the hill from the subway?”

“Same way as you. Y’all can’t afford no limousine. How do you feel?” he replied.

“No public school in the United States is set up to allow a George Washington to happen. Washingtons in the bud stage are screened, browbeaten, or bribed to conform to a narrow outlook on social truth. 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.”