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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener.…
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Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want…
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In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning…
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I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please…
— Jacques Barzun
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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
— Plato
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Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of…
— Magda Gerber
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Write and people will come to read. Write and people will heed to your words and share them with others. Not all…
— Suzy Kassem
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read…
— Caitlin Moran
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All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit…
— William Godwin
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If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual…
— Julian Assange
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