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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 quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it…
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A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.…
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