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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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Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.
— Stephen Levine
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How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
— Gerry Spence
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Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.
— Charles Bukowski
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As adult women, we're better able to protect ourselves emotionally. We understand we don't need to spend time with people who don't…
— Deborra-Lee Furness
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This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about…
— Paul Begala
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Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It's about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses…
— Scott Barry Kaufman
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The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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As Christians we’re called to belong, not just to believe. We are not meant to live lone-ranger lives; instead, we are to…
— Rick Warren
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But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers,…
— Amy Tan
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For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so…
— John Ortberg
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What's wrong with living our own lives instead of other peoples lives?
— Naquitta Faith
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How will they learn to read? you ask, and my answer is Remember the lessons of Massachusetts. When children are given whole…
— John Taylor Gatto
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