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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 spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot…
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be…
— Thomas Jefferson
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So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact,…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the…
— Linda Darling-Hammond
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If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect,…
— Zoe Weil
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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
— Carlos Fuentes
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Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls'…
— Scarlett Thomas
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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…
— John Taylor Gatto
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Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in…
— John Kricfalusi
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I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did…
— Martin Luther
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