There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.
Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.
