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People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
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No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest…
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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in…
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We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to…
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To trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves...and most of us were taught as children that we could not be…
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A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for…
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Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons: they think that raising their children is…
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If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying…
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We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach…
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To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid.
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The idea of painless, nonthreatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence. If you…
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What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it…
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of…
— Anzia Yezierska
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On the allegation of withholding temperature data, we find that CRU was not in a position to withhold access to such data…
— Unknown Author
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Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.
— Eckhart Tolle
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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
— Eckhart Tolle
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Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating…
— Nichelle Nichols
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Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information,
— Ian Mcewan
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Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.
— Larry Dossey
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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
— Adyashanti
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I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the…
— Alicia Ostriker
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Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our…
— Greg Boyle
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There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.
— Unknown Author
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