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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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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often…
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Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest…
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I think, in fact, the situation with respect to Al Qaida to say that, you know, that was a big attack we…
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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…
— John Taylor Gatto
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For the record, I love my sister. But she is dead wrong on the marriage issue.
— Mary Cheney
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It…
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The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the…
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts…
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There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's…
— Larry Ellison
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There is no way to create wealth without ideas. Most new ideas are created by newcomers. So anyone who thinks the world…
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Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all,…
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