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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 and stupid, only…

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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…
I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull…
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into…
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will…
Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them…
This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now…
Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to…
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by…
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months…
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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Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it… — Margaret Cho
As a single mom, I'm juggling a lot and working long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children… — Edie Falco
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull… — John Taylor Gatto
Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of… — Stevie Nicks
When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to… — T Bone Burnett
Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or… — Henning Mankell
Your children get only one childhood. — Regina Brett
It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time.… — Robbie Coltraine
Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow… — Kurt Vonnegut
Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too. — Stevie Nicks
May your wife and children get raped, right in the ass. (to the jurors who convicted her) — Aileen Wuornos
..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In… — Peter McWilliams

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