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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 and stupid, only…
- Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for…
- Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence
- Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast…
- Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
- School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily…
- I've come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us... I began to wonder, reluctantly, whether it…
- By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
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