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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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Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go…
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There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and…
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My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only…
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I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
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Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to…
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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they…
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think…
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I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
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After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies…
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Yes, you want her. Look at her, you know you do. It's possible she wants you to, there is one way to…
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It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's…
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