"If you should prefer to understand that children……" — Richard Mitchell
"If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely--provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your mind."
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19 Quotes by Richard Mitchell
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Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to…
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People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach…
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Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar,…
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Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a…
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An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead,…
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If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts,…
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Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
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Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.
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The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business.…
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Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the…
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