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One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the…

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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…
I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull…
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into…
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will…
Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them…
This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now…
Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to…
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by…
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months…
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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If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected. — William Westney

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