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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 structures of schooling…
- 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…
- Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
- School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.
- Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
- School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should…
- Ive concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we havent yet figured out how to manage a population…
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