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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 had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the…
— Lee Child
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You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady…
— Diablo Cody
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them…
— William Hazlitt
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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…
— John Taylor Gatto
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Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks…
— Alexander Lukashenko
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I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love…
— Boris Kodjoe
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Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church,…
— Nelson Searcy
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I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
— Dennis Farina
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For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But…
— Billy Zane
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Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting…
— Camille Pissarro
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