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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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A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves,
— Jan Gehl
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True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental…
— William Allingham
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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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A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name…
— Chellie Pingree
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The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary…
— Bill Toomey
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This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel…
— Patricia Heaton
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I noticed the different kids were always put down by other people and it would cause them to become almost violent with…
— Andy Biersack
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It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.
— Ian McHarg
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It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European…
— William Hague
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Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary.…
— Angela Merkel
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All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
— Grace Paley
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