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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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After a hard day scrambling to find your way around in the world, it's assuring to come home to a place you…
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Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already…
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In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second…
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How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against…
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Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our…
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I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for…
— David Rakoff
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Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.
— Beth Moore
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God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire,…
— Henry George
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