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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…
• I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
• School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull…
• The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into…
• The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will…
• Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
• The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them…
• This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now…
• Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to…
• Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by…
• Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months…
• 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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