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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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Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken…
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Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians…
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The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product,…
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It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that…
— Tori Amos
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There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to…
— David Abram
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Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and…
— Simon T. Bailey
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Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time;…
— Stefan Zweig
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You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking…
— Frederick Lenz
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No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist.…
— Fred Korematsu
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People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.
— Will Carling
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As we talked, I had the sense of uncovering something precious and long-buried, fully formed. Our conversation was a process of removing…
— Lisa Kleypas
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