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You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!
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Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.
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Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.
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Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
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The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.
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Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.
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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 one ugly boot that fits nobody.
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School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.
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I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.
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The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.
It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.