Unschooling Quotes
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Intelligence solves problems & produces money.Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.
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I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
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There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
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The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.
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If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
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I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
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There are only two places in the world: over here and over there.
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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.
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School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.
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Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
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Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!
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Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.
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I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret; that secrets can only be known in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags.
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We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
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In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.
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School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.
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How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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