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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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A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It’s knowing what you don’t know; the skills of critical thought.
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What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity…
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A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil…
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High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.
— John Cleese
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There's four main pillars to the bow tie - self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent…
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I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
— Bill Nye
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I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
— Abraham Kuyper
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Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.
— John Taylor Gatto
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