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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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Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the…
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As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in…
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I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve!
— Milton Berle
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I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent…
— Julie Andrews
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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Your teacher cannot bridge the gap between what you know and what you want to know. For his words to ‘educate' you,…
— Grace Llewellyn
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A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a…
— Robert B. Laughlin
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How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
— Arna Bontemps
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Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as…
— James Hillman
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My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
— Simon van der Meer
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