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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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I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective…
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In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state.…
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Linux is a leprosy; … This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.
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The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.
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The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.
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I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as…
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Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true…
— Jon Ronson
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I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically,…
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