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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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When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
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Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill…
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My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you,…
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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I…
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I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being…
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Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.
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Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than…
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War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.
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Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the…
— William J. Clinton
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In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with…
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