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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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I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure…
— Elayne Boosler
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is…
— Karel Capek
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I think it's [concern about global warming] mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they…
— Richard Lindzen
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The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making…
— Jared Spool
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty…
— Edward Abbey
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There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.
— Mike Penner
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Actually it was easier than you'd think. We were the guys who had the opportunity to play for something. Only 26 players…
— Kris Draper
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The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting…
— Carl Panzram
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I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they…
— Wietse Venema
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I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room…
— Sebastian Horsley
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