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I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead…

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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…
I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull…
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into…
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will…
Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them…
This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now…
Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to…
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by…
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months…
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
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
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
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
The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making… — Jared Spool
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
There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure. — Mike Penner
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
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting… — Carl Panzram
I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they… — Wietse Venema
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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