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Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the…
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I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
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School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull…
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The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into…
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The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will…
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Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
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The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them…
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This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now…
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Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to…
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Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by…
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Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months…
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Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame…
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If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may…
— Robert Redford
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Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up...
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When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems.
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What sort of champion would I be if I just stayed in my normal weight division and didn't take the big challenges…
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If you’re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams,…
— Joel Osteen
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One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and…
— Birch Bayh
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I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which…
— Kevin Rudd
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one…
— Larry Page
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Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit…
— John Taylor Gatto
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Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they…
— Mark McKinnon
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Big challenges are an accumulation of small challenges.
— Anne Wojcicki
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Someday you will look back on your life and realize that everything worthwhile you've ever accomplished initially challenged you. And that is…
— Melchor Lim
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