Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of stories, our canon, shapes our lives. I believe it is a law of the universe… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise above the statistics and become a nation of entrepreneurs and leaders? The answer, as challenging as it is,… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
There are really only two ways to teach. You can inspire the student to voluntarily and enthusiastically choose to do the hard work necessary… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
If Americans are frustrated with Congress, imagine their frustration with a group of international bank officials running our ecomomy-bankers who may not have as… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
When we let our freedoms slip away without a fight or even without concern, we take freedom, prosperity and happiness away from our posterity.… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
When you look into the eyes of your children and grandchildren, when you picture their greatness and potential, do you feel that they are… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life. — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“No U.S. president can “fix” education, no law can systematize inspiration, and no amount of funding, policy or resources can structure passion.” — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Jefferson, Madison and many others taught that complex laws and codes were sure signs of oppression. They agreed with Montesquieu, Lock and Hume and that laws must be simple…and indeed that the entire legal code must be simple enough that every citizen knows the entire law. If a person doesn't know the law…he shouldn't be held liable for breaking it… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share
Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
