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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 FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.
— John Ashcroft
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With a smile we should instruct our youth...
— Moliere
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We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
— William Shakespeare
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The things which hurt, instruct.
— Benjamin Franklin
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"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a…
— Calvin Coolidge
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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted,…
— Mark Twain
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To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people…
— Jeff Baxter
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we…
— Michel de Montaigne
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