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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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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
— Lynda Barry
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Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes…
— Donald Bradman
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The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.…
— Cheryl Strayed
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One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at…
— Christian Wiman
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When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
— Nicholson Baker
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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
— Edward Hirsch
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In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get…
— Gary Shteyngart
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If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more…
— Mark Strand
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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
— Phyllis McGinley
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I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative…
— Jesmyn Ward
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Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from…
— J. Courtney Sullivan
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Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
— Phyllis McGinley
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