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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 I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not…
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The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused…
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She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have…
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I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that…
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As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle…
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She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay…
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But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load…
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his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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