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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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I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.
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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon,…
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it,…
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You and me?” I let out a stunned bark of laughter. “There is no you and me.” “That’s what you think,” Chaz…
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In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side.’ But that isn’t true. In war,…
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This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.”…
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Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going…
— David Foster Wallace
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And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed.…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired…
— Rosa Parks
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The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know…
— Karen Joy Fowler
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