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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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...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number…
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
— Albert Einstein
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When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of…
— Shirley M. Tilghman
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This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives…
— Jonathan Jakubowicz
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There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is…
— Oscar Romero
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Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at workâthe rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and…
— Richard Florida
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We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there…
— Angela Carter
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There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
— Judith Martin
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The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.
— James S. Coleman
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A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World…
— Albert Einstein
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It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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