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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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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find…
— George Aiken
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During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in…
— Michael N. Castle
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In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope…
— John Henrik Clarke
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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
— Maya Angelou
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My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge…
— Malcolm X
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We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah…
— Malcolm X
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Everybody has the right to marry the person they love and be represented as a couple and family... It's something that people…
— Julianne Moore
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The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level…
— David Lack
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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
— Stanley Crouch
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...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination,…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that…
— Cab Calloway
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