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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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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to…
— Susie Bright
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do,…
— Oswald Chambers
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
— Juvenal
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Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure…
— Kripalvananda
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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of…
— Parker J. Palmer
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A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.
— Barry Long
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We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.
— Bryant H. McGill
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Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you…
— Susanna Tamaro
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Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.
— James Jeans
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