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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…

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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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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. — Edmund Burke
She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on… — Kate Chopin
Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason… — Niccolo Machiavelli
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established,… — James Madison
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. — Friedrich August von Hayek
What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.… — Swami Vivekananda
Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the… — John Taylor Gatto
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime... — Lord Acton
Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating… — Unknown Author
We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another. — Saint Basil
The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near… — William S. Burroughs

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