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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 a year, for…

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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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Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area.… — Jo Bonner
If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and… — Lewis Black
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Susan Lucci was the biggest star in the daytime galaxy, and she served it up hot and fresh and chic five days… — Andy Cohen
One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change… — Beverly Donofrio
For five days, I had no sleep. None. I did not sleep. And the last day, the reason I lasted, I drank… — Sam Farha
It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about… — Charles Darwin
There was a kid that had five brothers and sisters, and the family was missing for like five days. I was watching… — Shaquille O'Neal
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld
The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and… — Saint Francis de Sales
I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character… — Corin Nemec
In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work… — Barack Obama

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