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The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called…

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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. — Robert Burns
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It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do… — Alex O'Loughlin
When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And… — W. S. Gilbert
The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the… — Kim Young-sam
I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler. — Gordon Ramsay
The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, "Whatever you think is best, dear." Women, take… — Stephen King
Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on… — Anthony Burgess
The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for… — John Taylor Gatto
Meet me at Cut Throat Island. We'll smoke weed, dance with our tongues, and howl till the stars shake free. — Becca B
Yea uh, it be the niggas that you trust though. Cut throat do you dirty and won't give a fuck tho. — Meek Mill

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