My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

My father had very little formal education.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.