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joylyn
I am looking for a few good quotes.
This is for my classroom, where I'd like to print off a bunch of quotes
and put them all of the room. All subjects.
So, can we start a thread on favorite quotes?
Joylyn
This is for my classroom, where I'd like to print off a bunch of quotes
and put them all of the room. All subjects.
So, can we start a thread on favorite quotes?
Joylyn
Jenny E.
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
That is my most recent favorite off the top of my head.
Jen :o)
Mom to Beck (8) and Dane (5)
Learning the natural way every day!
--Eleanor Roosevelt
That is my most recent favorite off the top of my head.
Jen :o)
Mom to Beck (8) and Dane (5)
Learning the natural way every day!
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I am looking for a few good quotes.
This is for my classroom, where I'd like to print off a bunch of quotes
and put them all of the room. All subjects.
So, can we start a thread on favorite quotes?
Joylyn
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joylyn
That's a great one!
Thanks. Keep 'em coming.
Joylyn
Jenny E. wrote:
Thanks. Keep 'em coming.
Joylyn
Jenny E. wrote:
> "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> the choices one makes."
>
> --Eleanor Roosevelt
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> That is my most recent favorite off the top of my head.
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> Jen :o)
> Mom to Beck (8) and Dane (5)
> Learning the natural way every day!
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> Joylyn
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Kate ODonovan
Hi Joylyn,
Here is one of my favorite quotes:
"There is no such thing as an uninteresting life. Beneath the dullest exterior exterior there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy."
.......Mark Twain
Here is one of my favorite quotes:
"There is no such thing as an uninteresting life. Beneath the dullest exterior exterior there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy."
.......Mark Twain
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Subject: [AlwaysLearning] quotes
I am looking for a few good quotes.
This is for my classroom, where I'd like to print off a bunch of quotes
and put them all of the room. All subjects.
So, can we start a thread on favorite quotes?
Joylyn
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Kate ODonovan
Sorry Joylyn, I wrote exterior twice. It is definitely getting late and I am beat!
Kate
Kate
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Subject: [AlwaysLearning] quotes
I am looking for a few good quotes.
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and put them all of the room. All subjects.
So, can we start a thread on favorite quotes?
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Dominique Moseley
One of my favorites is my signature line!
Dominique
very proud momma of Stanzi,Robby,&Gabbi
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the
depth of our answers. - Carl Sagan
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Subject: [AlwaysLearning] quotes
I am looking for a few good quotes.
This is for my classroom, where I'd like to print off a bunch of quotes
and put them all of the room. All subjects.
So, can we start a thread on favorite quotes?
Joylyn
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Subject: [AlwaysLearning] quotes
I am looking for a few good quotes.
This is for my classroom, where I'd like to print off a bunch of quotes
and put them all of the room. All subjects.
So, can we start a thread on favorite quotes?
Joylyn
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joylyn
Word caught it. I love word. I worship word and it's spell check.
joylyn
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joylyn
Kate ODonovan wrote:
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joylyn
:-)
I like that one too.
Joylyn
Dominique Moseley wrote:
I like that one too.
Joylyn
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> I am looking for a few good quotes.
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> This is for my classroom, where I'd like to print off a bunch of quotes
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>
> Joylyn
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Nancy Wooton
on 1/9/04 8:13 PM, joylyn at joylyn@... wrote:
--
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find
themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
--
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
-Chuang-Tzu, philosopher (4th c. BCE)
--
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
-Neil Postman, professor and author (1931- )
--
You are never too old to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
--
Not all those that wander are lost.
--J.R.R. Tolkien, novelist and philologist (1892-1973)
--
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind a faithful servant.
We have created a society
that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift."
.... Albert Einstein
--
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst
lovely things.
--Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
And my latest addition (I'm sparing you the Bart Simpson Blackboard Quotes
<g>):
--
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what
they become by it.
- John Ruskin
Nancy
> I am looking for a few good quotes.I have well over a hundred in my signature line folder on OE <g>
>
> This is for my classroom, where I'd like to print off a bunch of quotes
> and put them all of the room. All subjects.
>
> So, can we start a thread on favorite quotes?
>
> Joylyn
--
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find
themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
--
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
-Chuang-Tzu, philosopher (4th c. BCE)
--
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
-Neil Postman, professor and author (1931- )
--
You are never too old to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
--
Not all those that wander are lost.
--J.R.R. Tolkien, novelist and philologist (1892-1973)
--
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind a faithful servant.
We have created a society
that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift."
.... Albert Einstein
--
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst
lovely things.
--Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
And my latest addition (I'm sparing you the Bart Simpson Blackboard Quotes
<g>):
--
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what
they become by it.
- John Ruskin
Nancy
joylyn
Those are great! Thanks. I'm using every one.
I don't mind a bart quote, or two. As long as they are not ones for
which I would be fired.
:-)
Joylyn
Nancy Wooton wrote:
I don't mind a bart quote, or two. As long as they are not ones for
which I would be fired.
:-)
Joylyn
Nancy Wooton wrote:
> on 1/9/04 8:13 PM, joylyn at joylyn@... wrote:[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> > I am looking for a few good quotes.
> >
> > This is for my classroom, where I'd like to print off a bunch of quotes
> > and put them all of the room. All subjects.
> >
> > So, can we start a thread on favorite quotes?
> >
> > Joylyn
>
> I have well over a hundred in my signature line folder on OE <g>
>
>
> --
> In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find
> themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer
> exists.
> - Eric Hoffer
>
> --
> Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
> -Chuang-Tzu, philosopher (4th c. BCE)
>
> --
> Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
> -Neil Postman, professor and author (1931- )
>
> --
> You are never too old to be what you might have been.
> -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
>
> --
> Not all those that wander are lost.
> --J.R.R. Tolkien, novelist and philologist (1892-1973)
>
>
> --
> "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
> and the rational mind a faithful servant.
>
> We have created a society
> that honors the servant
> and has forgotten the gift."
>
> .... Albert Einstein
>
> --
> The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst
> lovely things.
> --Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
>
>
> And my latest addition (I'm sparing you the Bart Simpson Blackboard Quotes
> <g>):
>
> --
> The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it,
> but what
> they become by it.
> - John Ruskin
>
> Nancy
>
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Here's my quote file:
"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks
anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this
uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which
children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are
pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with
official rubber-stamps." -- H.L. Mencken
%
"Compulsory government schooling began in the US in 1852 in
Massachusetts.[1] At that time, it took guns, soldiers and the threat of
bloody violence, rather than expert advice, to force parents to submit to
giving up their children." -- Cathy Cuthbert (homeschool mother and editor
of The School Liberator, published by the Alliance for the Separation of
School & State.) http://www.sepschool.org/essays/cuthbert/empire.html
%
"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge
and experience, and has little to do with school or college." - Lillian
Smith
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"Forced schooling arose from the new logic of the Industrial Age -- the
logic imposed on flesh and blood by fossil fuel and high-speed machinery.
This simple reality is hidden from view by early philosophical and
theological anticipations of mass schooling in various writings about social
order and human nature. But you shouldn't be fooled any more than Charles
Francis Adams was fooled when he observed in 1880 that what was being cooked
up for kids unlucky enough to be snared by the newly proposed institutional
school net combined characteristics of the cotton mill and the railroad with
those of a state prison." --John Taylor Gatto in The Underground History of
American Education.
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"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have
things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce
their own ideas." -- Agatha Christie
%
"If parents of students have the right to choose so many other basics in
their lives-such as where they live, where they go to church, where they
work-then they also ought have the right to choose where their children go
to school."
%
"It is inappropriate for (parents) to design the curriculum and to run the
school."
-- Rod Paige, George W. Bush's Education Secretary, September 2001
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"It's (education) a partnership. The parent has responsibility, too. Make
sure a disciplined child shows up who wants to learn. It is inappropriate
[for parents] to design the curriculum and to run the school." --U.S.
Education Secretary Rod Paige, as quoted in the
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"My grandmother wanted me to have an education so she kept me out of
school." -- Margaret Mead
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"Only a government school bureaucracy could wonder what is wrong with young
children who prefer to move around, talk, and learn what they want to learn
rather than sit quietly and listen to an adult droning on." --
http://www.sepschool.org/edlib/v1n4/lead.html
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"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education
from happening...The average American [should be] content with their humble
role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role." -
William Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889
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"Parent's attitudes about what they want for their children represent one of
the greatest barriers to successful implementation of school-to-work." --
U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and
Improvement
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"Schools create the present world in a bizarre take on Rousseau: man is
everywhere born naked and free, and now is everywhere, not in chains, but
diapers." -- from Home Schooled and Free by Michael Gilson De Lemos
<http://www.lewrockwell.com/delemos/delemos16.html>
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"The best hope for rejection of the American Empire and a resurgence of a
love of liberty is homeschooling." -- Cathy Cuthbert (homeschool mother and
editor of The School Liberator, published by the Alliance for the Separation
of School & State.)
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"The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you
can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent
education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a
decent education?" -- Thomas Sowell
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"The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man.
Let's see. Don't tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never
say anything, unless you're sure everyone feels exactly the same way you
do." - Homer Simpson
%
"The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to
educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call in
enemy nations 'state indoctrination'." -- Jonathan Kozol 1990
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"The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school." --
George Bernard Shaw
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"there ain't no rules around here! We're tryin' to accomplish somep'n." --
Thomas Edison, homeschooler
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"There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a
school. To begin with, it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel
than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books
written by the warden and the governor ... In prison they may torture your
body; but they do not torture your brains." -- George Bernard Shaw,
playwright
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"They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What
they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing." --
Douglas Yates
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"When one is convinced of the truth of one's position, one is glad to engage
in discourse. One does not ask the opponent to hush." - Marshall Fritz
http://sepschool.org/Edlib/v2n8/hush.html
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"When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start
representing the interests of school children." -- Albert Shanker, longtime
American Federation of Teachers president
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"Whenever the teacher said, 'If you don't get good grades, you won't do well
in the real world,' Mike and I just raised our eyebrows. When we were told
to follow set procedures and not deviate from the rules, we could see how
the schooling process actually discouraged creativity. We started to
understand why our rich dad told us that schools were designed to produce
good employees instead of employers." -- Robert Kiyosaki, "Rich Dad, Poor
Dad."
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"You are not paying for education twice if you send your child to a private
school. You are paying once for the government indoctrination of other
people's children and once for the education of yours. You are not paying
for education when you pay taxes." -- Marshall Fritz, President, The
Alliance for the Separation of School and State
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[Schools:] vast factories for the manufacture of robots. -- Robert Lindner
(1914-1956)
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Education - compulsory schooling, compulsory learning - is a tyranny and a
crime against the human mind and spirit. Let all those escape it who can,
any way they can. - John Holt
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Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire --
William Butler Yeats
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde,
1856-1900
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Every year when it was time for Charlie Brown to kick the football, a nation
ached for him to say at last "Not this time, Lucy." Until we re-examine our
underlying premise of who is responsible for a child's education - parents
or government - we will continue playing Charlie Brown to a Bush or a
Clinton, trusting that "this time" their five-year plan will work. -
http://www.sepschool.org
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I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won
in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly view their role as
the proselytizers of a new faith. The classroom must and will become an
arena of conflict between the old and the new; the rotting corpse of
Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new
faith of Humanism. -- The Official Journal of the American Humanist
Association [1983]
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If your food at the restaurant is rancid and you have to send it back and
the waiter offers you more of the same for more money, would you take it?
No? Then why are we putting more money into public schools?
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In volume two of his work, "The Enlightenment," Peter Gay, writing of the
18th century, noted: "The kindly spirits that sent the children of the
poor to the charity schools in England, for example, had no intention of
permitting these pupils to rise above their station: the point of this
schooling was to produce piety and insure deference; when some attempt was
made to teach the most intelligent of these children something more than
reading, petty tradesmen objected to this potential competition with their
own children."
http://www.schoolreformers.com/editorials/2002/conspiracy.html
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LET'S MAKE NO MISTAKE about it. Tax-funded schools are welfare, pure and
simple. If a free lunch at noon is welfare, so is a free math lesson at ten
a.m. -- Marshall Fritz
http://www.sepschool.org/edlib/v3n4/violated.html
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Nine out of 10 parents were publicly schooled. If they are unfit as adults
to direct the education of their own children, then public schooling should
hang its collective head and change its ways - not cement its collective
failures into the constitution. -- J.J. Ross, Ed.D.
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One of the misuses of the words "schooling" and "education" is the common
reference to "compulsory education." That is a misnomer if there ever was
one. There are no compulsory education laws--laws which require that all
children be educated. As is commonly known, huge numbers are not educated to
any minimum level, including many who graduate from high school. -- David
Kirkpatrick in his column "More on Compulsory Schooling."
http://www.schoolreformers.com/editorials/2001/compulsion2.html
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The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.
Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and
compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it
instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's
Magazine
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My children are too smart to allow school to keep them from learning about
the world and all that it offers!
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"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education.
They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind
of idiot who must taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself,
he will think more and better, if less slowly. Let him come and go freely,
let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead
of sitting indoors at a little round table while a sweet-voiced teacher
suggest that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow
out of strips of colored paper, or plant straw trees in flower pots. Such
teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of
before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.
" -- Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's mentor and friend
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde
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"American parents have surrendered their responsibility for the education of
their children to government -- and increasingly to the Imperial Federal
Government. The results aren't good." --Neil Boortz
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"A tax supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the
totalitarian state." -- Isabel Patterson, The God of the Machine
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"If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education,
advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition
subsidies." - Milton Friedman
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"Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a
sense of their responsibility toward the community of the
nation." --Bernhard Rust, Nazi Minister of Education; from "Racial
Instruction and the National Community," 1935.
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"Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is
public property ... He must be taught to amass wealth, but it must be only
to increase his power of contributing to the wants and demands of the
state... [Education] can be done effectually only by the interference and
aid of the Legislature." -- Benjamin Rush, 1786
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"Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers." --
Thomas Hodgskin
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"State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly
alike one another." -- John Stuart Mill 1859
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"The aim of education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to
reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a
standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. -- H.L. Menken
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"The last stand of oligarchical and anti-social seclusion is perpetuation of
this purely individualistic notion of intelligence." - Socialist John Dewey,
Founder of Modern Education
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"We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark
sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher leave them kids alone." -- Pink Floyd
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"Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found
state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure
implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery." -- Benjamin
Disraeli, 1874
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"It is a miracle that curiousity survives formal education." -- Albert
Einstein
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"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there
is." -- Isaac Asimov
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"First and foremost, we're running a public system at taxpayer's expense for
the public good and only secondarily for the good of parents and
individuals." -- American Federation of Teachers president Al Shanker
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As one very troubled teacher recently put it, "We send our tax money to
Washington, then Washington feeds it back to us only if we do what we're
told. Something is wrong here."
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I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. - Calvin (The
Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, p235-2)
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This morning I had a wonderful dream. By holding my arms out stiff and
pushing down hard, I found I could suspend myself a few feet above ground. I
flapped harder, and soon I was soaring effortlessly over the trees and
telephone poles! I could fly! I folded my arms back and zoomed low over the
neighborhood. Everyone was amazed, and they ran along under me as I shot by.
Then I rocketed up so fast that my eyes watered from the wind. I laughed and
laughed, making huge loops in the sky! ...That's when Mom woke me up and
said I was going to miss the bus if I didn't get my bottom out of bed; 20
minutes later, here I am, standing in the cold rain, waiting to go to
school, and I just remembered I forgot my lunch. Tuesdays don't start much
worse than this. -- Calvin (The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes, p207-2)
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"The bottom line is this, always this. We have no more freedom, no more
rights, than the most restricted among us." - Cathy D. Henderson
http://educationalfreedom.com/pages/editorials/chenderson_01172003.html
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"I like the Montessori method. It teaches through play. It makes learning a
pleasure. It follows the natural instincts of the human being . . . The
present system casts the brain into a mold. It does not encourage original
thought or reasoning." - Thomas Edison, homeschooler
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It's better to be slightly concerned about socialization than very concerned
about socialism.
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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." --Benjamin
Franklin
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"The right to freedom in the area of intellectual development and personal
philosophy is fully as important as freedom of religion. Thus there should
be a separation of education and state just as there is a separation of
church and state." - David Berglund, 1984 Libertarian candidate for
President
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"Christ didn't set up the Judea Compulsory School System. He issued an
invitation, "Follow me," and some did, and some didn't. And Christ didn't
send the truant officer after those who didn't." - John Taylor Gatto
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"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education." -
Bertrand Russell
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"Whatever their claims, schools are training most young people to be
habitually subservient." - Chris Shute
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"Let a child suddenly become interested in pursuing a subject that strikes
his or her fancy, and a teacher should be able to seize that opportunity....
Instead, the bell rings, and the little inmates are expected to turn off
that spark of curiosity that fires constantly in six-year-olds, but which is
progressively extinguished by a 19th century factory model of education that
only considers such outbursts inconvenient, as they shuffle off to their
next planned activity like spiritless drones." - Vin Suprynowicz
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"It is the duty of a citizen in a free country not to fit into society, but
to make society." -John Holt
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"No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than
that of a mother teaching her children." -- Boyd K. Packer
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"A custodial parent has a constitutional right to determine, without undue
influence from the state, how best to raise, nurture, and educate the
child."
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
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"it cannot now be doubted that the due process clause of the 14th Amendment
protects the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the
care, custody, and control of their children."
US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
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"In my view, a right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children
is among the "unalienable Rights" with which the Declaration of Independence
proclaims "all Men ... are endowed by their Creator." And in my view that
right is also among the "othe[r] [rights] retained by the people" which the
Ninth Amendment says the Constitution's enumeration of rights "shall not be
construed to deny or disparage." -- Justice Antonin Scalia
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"the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the fundamental
right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control
of their children." US Supreme Court - Troxel v. Granville
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"When we started homeschooling,
I felt as though I had tucked a child under each arm and jumped off a cliff.
Imagine my surprise to discover we have wings."
~Maura Seger
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"The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the
fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society... [T]he
result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by
parents, guardians, and pupils." - Lester Frank Ward (1897)
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"The first duty of a State is to see that every child born therein shall be
well housed, clothed, fed, and educated, till it attain years of discretion.
But in order to the effecting this the Government must have an authority
over the people of which we now do not so much as dream." - John Ruskin
(d1900)
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"Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products
(children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various
demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands
of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to
build its pupils according to the specifications laid down." - Elwood
Cubberley (1920)
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"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What
are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored." - F. W.
Nietzsche (1889)
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"We are opposed to state interference with parental rights and rights of
conscience in the education of children." - Democrat National Platform
(1892)
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"[T]he result has been school systems that treat children as units to be
processed into particular shapes and dropped into slots roughly congruent
with the status of their parents." - Michael Katz (1968)
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"The only way to leave no child behind is to have everybody stand still."
http://www.sepschool.org/essays/fritz/cobbett/euphemisms.html
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"You aren't compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are
compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process
children for a livelihood" John Taylor Gatto
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- Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the
United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -Thirteenth
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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"Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public
school." -- Texas Federal District Judge Melinda Harmon
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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil." - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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"Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul." --
Walt Whitman
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" Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the
raising of the next generation."
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"Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is
public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be
taught at the same time, that he must forsake them ... when the welfare of
his country requires."
Benjamin Rush
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"If we want the young to quit violently rebelling, we're going to have to
stop repressing their natural right to freedom."
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"I had thought that they who rock the cradle have the greatest impact on
history one can have. Perhaps that is the very reason so many strangers want
to get their hands on the cradle?" - Bev Jones
http://educationalfreedom.com/efp/helm/09102001/mediaresponse.html
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"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to
grow sharper." - Eden Phillpots
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"The end of public education awaits one thing: Parents with the courage to
rescue their children."
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Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a
conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to
tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be
your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person
who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with;
it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die. -- From
Dumbing us Down by John Taylor Gatto
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or faraway -- Henry David Thoreau
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"Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their
children that they forget that they themselves are really the
experts."-Marian Wright Edelman
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
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I don't trust the government with my money. Why would I trust them with my
children?
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"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill
because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our Founding Fathers,
toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a
supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate
entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by
creating the international child of the future." --Professor Chester M.
Pierce, M.D., Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard
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"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of
the originality." ~ Beatrix Potter
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"When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' I calmly
say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on.
Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they
will know nothing else but this new community." - Adolf Hitler
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"Home schooling is a very old way of doing things. If you look at any of
the bills in your wallet or the coins in your pocket, they all have a
picture of a home-schooler on them." - William Lloyd, National Home
Education Research Institute, Baltimore Sun, 9/15/03
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Many people today say that the gs is failing. I say its succeeding at its
purpose. To provide human resources.
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"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how.
They want to, and they know how."
--John Holt
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"Take chances, make mistakes, get messy"~ Miss Frizzle, 'The Magic School
Bus'
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"A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all
who want to learn with access to available resources at anytime in their
lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want
to learn it from them; and finally, furnish all who want to present an issue
to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known." - Ivan
Illich
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"You can follow your book and your map of wars, but I'll go and follow my
kids." -- Woody Guthrie
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
reason for existing." - Albert Einstein
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"The fundamental liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose
excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by
forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only."--U.S. Supreme
Court, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 1925
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"If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun." - Hobbes (from Calvin and
Hobbes)
"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks
anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this
uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which
children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are
pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with
official rubber-stamps." -- H.L. Mencken
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"Compulsory government schooling began in the US in 1852 in
Massachusetts.[1] At that time, it took guns, soldiers and the threat of
bloody violence, rather than expert advice, to force parents to submit to
giving up their children." -- Cathy Cuthbert (homeschool mother and editor
of The School Liberator, published by the Alliance for the Separation of
School & State.) http://www.sepschool.org/essays/cuthbert/empire.html
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"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge
and experience, and has little to do with school or college." - Lillian
Smith
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"Forced schooling arose from the new logic of the Industrial Age -- the
logic imposed on flesh and blood by fossil fuel and high-speed machinery.
This simple reality is hidden from view by early philosophical and
theological anticipations of mass schooling in various writings about social
order and human nature. But you shouldn't be fooled any more than Charles
Francis Adams was fooled when he observed in 1880 that what was being cooked
up for kids unlucky enough to be snared by the newly proposed institutional
school net combined characteristics of the cotton mill and the railroad with
those of a state prison." --John Taylor Gatto in The Underground History of
American Education.
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"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have
things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce
their own ideas." -- Agatha Christie
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"If parents of students have the right to choose so many other basics in
their lives-such as where they live, where they go to church, where they
work-then they also ought have the right to choose where their children go
to school."
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"It is inappropriate for (parents) to design the curriculum and to run the
school."
-- Rod Paige, George W. Bush's Education Secretary, September 2001
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"It's (education) a partnership. The parent has responsibility, too. Make
sure a disciplined child shows up who wants to learn. It is inappropriate
[for parents] to design the curriculum and to run the school." --U.S.
Education Secretary Rod Paige, as quoted in the
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"My grandmother wanted me to have an education so she kept me out of
school." -- Margaret Mead
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"Only a government school bureaucracy could wonder what is wrong with young
children who prefer to move around, talk, and learn what they want to learn
rather than sit quietly and listen to an adult droning on." --
http://www.sepschool.org/edlib/v1n4/lead.html
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"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education
from happening...The average American [should be] content with their humble
role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role." -
William Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889
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"Parent's attitudes about what they want for their children represent one of
the greatest barriers to successful implementation of school-to-work." --
U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and
Improvement
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"Schools create the present world in a bizarre take on Rousseau: man is
everywhere born naked and free, and now is everywhere, not in chains, but
diapers." -- from Home Schooled and Free by Michael Gilson De Lemos
<http://www.lewrockwell.com/delemos/delemos16.html>
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"The best hope for rejection of the American Empire and a resurgence of a
love of liberty is homeschooling." -- Cathy Cuthbert (homeschool mother and
editor of The School Liberator, published by the Alliance for the Separation
of School & State.)
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"The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you
can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent
education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a
decent education?" -- Thomas Sowell
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"The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man.
Let's see. Don't tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never
say anything, unless you're sure everyone feels exactly the same way you
do." - Homer Simpson
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"The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to
educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call in
enemy nations 'state indoctrination'." -- Jonathan Kozol 1990
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"The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school." --
George Bernard Shaw
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"there ain't no rules around here! We're tryin' to accomplish somep'n." --
Thomas Edison, homeschooler
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"There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a
school. To begin with, it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel
than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books
written by the warden and the governor ... In prison they may torture your
body; but they do not torture your brains." -- George Bernard Shaw,
playwright
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"They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What
they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing." --
Douglas Yates
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"When one is convinced of the truth of one's position, one is glad to engage
in discourse. One does not ask the opponent to hush." - Marshall Fritz
http://sepschool.org/Edlib/v2n8/hush.html
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"When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start
representing the interests of school children." -- Albert Shanker, longtime
American Federation of Teachers president
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"Whenever the teacher said, 'If you don't get good grades, you won't do well
in the real world,' Mike and I just raised our eyebrows. When we were told
to follow set procedures and not deviate from the rules, we could see how
the schooling process actually discouraged creativity. We started to
understand why our rich dad told us that schools were designed to produce
good employees instead of employers." -- Robert Kiyosaki, "Rich Dad, Poor
Dad."
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"You are not paying for education twice if you send your child to a private
school. You are paying once for the government indoctrination of other
people's children and once for the education of yours. You are not paying
for education when you pay taxes." -- Marshall Fritz, President, The
Alliance for the Separation of School and State
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[Schools:] vast factories for the manufacture of robots. -- Robert Lindner
(1914-1956)
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Education - compulsory schooling, compulsory learning - is a tyranny and a
crime against the human mind and spirit. Let all those escape it who can,
any way they can. - John Holt
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Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire --
William Butler Yeats
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde,
1856-1900
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Every year when it was time for Charlie Brown to kick the football, a nation
ached for him to say at last "Not this time, Lucy." Until we re-examine our
underlying premise of who is responsible for a child's education - parents
or government - we will continue playing Charlie Brown to a Bush or a
Clinton, trusting that "this time" their five-year plan will work. -
http://www.sepschool.org
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I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won
in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly view their role as
the proselytizers of a new faith. The classroom must and will become an
arena of conflict between the old and the new; the rotting corpse of
Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new
faith of Humanism. -- The Official Journal of the American Humanist
Association [1983]
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If your food at the restaurant is rancid and you have to send it back and
the waiter offers you more of the same for more money, would you take it?
No? Then why are we putting more money into public schools?
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In volume two of his work, "The Enlightenment," Peter Gay, writing of the
18th century, noted: "The kindly spirits that sent the children of the
poor to the charity schools in England, for example, had no intention of
permitting these pupils to rise above their station: the point of this
schooling was to produce piety and insure deference; when some attempt was
made to teach the most intelligent of these children something more than
reading, petty tradesmen objected to this potential competition with their
own children."
http://www.schoolreformers.com/editorials/2002/conspiracy.html
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LET'S MAKE NO MISTAKE about it. Tax-funded schools are welfare, pure and
simple. If a free lunch at noon is welfare, so is a free math lesson at ten
a.m. -- Marshall Fritz
http://www.sepschool.org/edlib/v3n4/violated.html
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Nine out of 10 parents were publicly schooled. If they are unfit as adults
to direct the education of their own children, then public schooling should
hang its collective head and change its ways - not cement its collective
failures into the constitution. -- J.J. Ross, Ed.D.
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One of the misuses of the words "schooling" and "education" is the common
reference to "compulsory education." That is a misnomer if there ever was
one. There are no compulsory education laws--laws which require that all
children be educated. As is commonly known, huge numbers are not educated to
any minimum level, including many who graduate from high school. -- David
Kirkpatrick in his column "More on Compulsory Schooling."
http://www.schoolreformers.com/editorials/2001/compulsion2.html
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The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.
Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and
compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it
instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's
Magazine
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My children are too smart to allow school to keep them from learning about
the world and all that it offers!
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"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education.
They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind
of idiot who must taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself,
he will think more and better, if less slowly. Let him come and go freely,
let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead
of sitting indoors at a little round table while a sweet-voiced teacher
suggest that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow
out of strips of colored paper, or plant straw trees in flower pots. Such
teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of
before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.
" -- Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's mentor and friend
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde
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"American parents have surrendered their responsibility for the education of
their children to government -- and increasingly to the Imperial Federal
Government. The results aren't good." --Neil Boortz
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"A tax supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the
totalitarian state." -- Isabel Patterson, The God of the Machine
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"If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education,
advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition
subsidies." - Milton Friedman
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"Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a
sense of their responsibility toward the community of the
nation." --Bernhard Rust, Nazi Minister of Education; from "Racial
Instruction and the National Community," 1935.
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"Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is
public property ... He must be taught to amass wealth, but it must be only
to increase his power of contributing to the wants and demands of the
state... [Education] can be done effectually only by the interference and
aid of the Legislature." -- Benjamin Rush, 1786
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"Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers." --
Thomas Hodgskin
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"State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly
alike one another." -- John Stuart Mill 1859
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"The aim of education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to
reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a
standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. -- H.L. Menken
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"The last stand of oligarchical and anti-social seclusion is perpetuation of
this purely individualistic notion of intelligence." - Socialist John Dewey,
Founder of Modern Education
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"We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark
sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher leave them kids alone." -- Pink Floyd
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"Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found
state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure
implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery." -- Benjamin
Disraeli, 1874
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"It is a miracle that curiousity survives formal education." -- Albert
Einstein
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"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there
is." -- Isaac Asimov
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"First and foremost, we're running a public system at taxpayer's expense for
the public good and only secondarily for the good of parents and
individuals." -- American Federation of Teachers president Al Shanker
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As one very troubled teacher recently put it, "We send our tax money to
Washington, then Washington feeds it back to us only if we do what we're
told. Something is wrong here."
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I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. - Calvin (The
Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, p235-2)
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This morning I had a wonderful dream. By holding my arms out stiff and
pushing down hard, I found I could suspend myself a few feet above ground. I
flapped harder, and soon I was soaring effortlessly over the trees and
telephone poles! I could fly! I folded my arms back and zoomed low over the
neighborhood. Everyone was amazed, and they ran along under me as I shot by.
Then I rocketed up so fast that my eyes watered from the wind. I laughed and
laughed, making huge loops in the sky! ...That's when Mom woke me up and
said I was going to miss the bus if I didn't get my bottom out of bed; 20
minutes later, here I am, standing in the cold rain, waiting to go to
school, and I just remembered I forgot my lunch. Tuesdays don't start much
worse than this. -- Calvin (The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes, p207-2)
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"The bottom line is this, always this. We have no more freedom, no more
rights, than the most restricted among us." - Cathy D. Henderson
http://educationalfreedom.com/pages/editorials/chenderson_01172003.html
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"I like the Montessori method. It teaches through play. It makes learning a
pleasure. It follows the natural instincts of the human being . . . The
present system casts the brain into a mold. It does not encourage original
thought or reasoning." - Thomas Edison, homeschooler
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It's better to be slightly concerned about socialization than very concerned
about socialism.
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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." --Benjamin
Franklin
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"The right to freedom in the area of intellectual development and personal
philosophy is fully as important as freedom of religion. Thus there should
be a separation of education and state just as there is a separation of
church and state." - David Berglund, 1984 Libertarian candidate for
President
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"Christ didn't set up the Judea Compulsory School System. He issued an
invitation, "Follow me," and some did, and some didn't. And Christ didn't
send the truant officer after those who didn't." - John Taylor Gatto
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"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education." -
Bertrand Russell
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"Whatever their claims, schools are training most young people to be
habitually subservient." - Chris Shute
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"Let a child suddenly become interested in pursuing a subject that strikes
his or her fancy, and a teacher should be able to seize that opportunity....
Instead, the bell rings, and the little inmates are expected to turn off
that spark of curiosity that fires constantly in six-year-olds, but which is
progressively extinguished by a 19th century factory model of education that
only considers such outbursts inconvenient, as they shuffle off to their
next planned activity like spiritless drones." - Vin Suprynowicz
%
"It is the duty of a citizen in a free country not to fit into society, but
to make society." -John Holt
%
"No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than
that of a mother teaching her children." -- Boyd K. Packer
%
"A custodial parent has a constitutional right to determine, without undue
influence from the state, how best to raise, nurture, and educate the
child."
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
%
"it cannot now be doubted that the due process clause of the 14th Amendment
protects the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the
care, custody, and control of their children."
US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
%
"In my view, a right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children
is among the "unalienable Rights" with which the Declaration of Independence
proclaims "all Men ... are endowed by their Creator." And in my view that
right is also among the "othe[r] [rights] retained by the people" which the
Ninth Amendment says the Constitution's enumeration of rights "shall not be
construed to deny or disparage." -- Justice Antonin Scalia
%
"the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the fundamental
right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control
of their children." US Supreme Court - Troxel v. Granville
%
"When we started homeschooling,
I felt as though I had tucked a child under each arm and jumped off a cliff.
Imagine my surprise to discover we have wings."
~Maura Seger
%
"The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the
fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society... [T]he
result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by
parents, guardians, and pupils." - Lester Frank Ward (1897)
%
"The first duty of a State is to see that every child born therein shall be
well housed, clothed, fed, and educated, till it attain years of discretion.
But in order to the effecting this the Government must have an authority
over the people of which we now do not so much as dream." - John Ruskin
(d1900)
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"Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products
(children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various
demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands
of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to
build its pupils according to the specifications laid down." - Elwood
Cubberley (1920)
%
"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What
are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored." - F. W.
Nietzsche (1889)
%
"We are opposed to state interference with parental rights and rights of
conscience in the education of children." - Democrat National Platform
(1892)
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"[T]he result has been school systems that treat children as units to be
processed into particular shapes and dropped into slots roughly congruent
with the status of their parents." - Michael Katz (1968)
%
"The only way to leave no child behind is to have everybody stand still."
http://www.sepschool.org/essays/fritz/cobbett/euphemisms.html
%
"You aren't compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are
compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process
children for a livelihood" John Taylor Gatto
%
- Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the
United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -Thirteenth
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
%
"Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public
school." -- Texas Federal District Judge Melinda Harmon
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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil." - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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"Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul." --
Walt Whitman
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" Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the
raising of the next generation."
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"Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is
public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be
taught at the same time, that he must forsake them ... when the welfare of
his country requires."
Benjamin Rush
%
"If we want the young to quit violently rebelling, we're going to have to
stop repressing their natural right to freedom."
%
"I had thought that they who rock the cradle have the greatest impact on
history one can have. Perhaps that is the very reason so many strangers want
to get their hands on the cradle?" - Bev Jones
http://educationalfreedom.com/efp/helm/09102001/mediaresponse.html
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"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to
grow sharper." - Eden Phillpots
%
"The end of public education awaits one thing: Parents with the courage to
rescue their children."
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Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a
conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to
tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be
your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person
who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with;
it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die. -- From
Dumbing us Down by John Taylor Gatto
%
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or faraway -- Henry David Thoreau
%
"Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their
children that they forget that they themselves are really the
experts."-Marian Wright Edelman
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
%
I don't trust the government with my money. Why would I trust them with my
children?
%
"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill
because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our Founding Fathers,
toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a
supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate
entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by
creating the international child of the future." --Professor Chester M.
Pierce, M.D., Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard
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"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of
the originality." ~ Beatrix Potter
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"When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' I calmly
say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on.
Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they
will know nothing else but this new community." - Adolf Hitler
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"Home schooling is a very old way of doing things. If you look at any of
the bills in your wallet or the coins in your pocket, they all have a
picture of a home-schooler on them." - William Lloyd, National Home
Education Research Institute, Baltimore Sun, 9/15/03
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Many people today say that the gs is failing. I say its succeeding at its
purpose. To provide human resources.
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"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how.
They want to, and they know how."
--John Holt
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"Take chances, make mistakes, get messy"~ Miss Frizzle, 'The Magic School
Bus'
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"A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all
who want to learn with access to available resources at anytime in their
lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want
to learn it from them; and finally, furnish all who want to present an issue
to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known." - Ivan
Illich
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"You can follow your book and your map of wars, but I'll go and follow my
kids." -- Woody Guthrie
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
reason for existing." - Albert Einstein
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"The fundamental liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose
excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by
forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only."--U.S. Supreme
Court, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 1925
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"If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun." - Hobbes (from Calvin and
Hobbes)
Tami
My sig is a quote! A good one as far as I am concerned, maybe you will like
it?
We have been wicked sick, first time in many years for us, sorry if I missed
something........
Indiana Tami
'Namaste' is an East Indian greeting which means 'the light within me
bows to the light within you.' In other words, beyond our achy bones,
our tired feet and our multi-colored real life soap operas, lurks a
dimension that is more than the body, the persona, the ego and all the
'trappings and the suits of woe' as Hamlet would say---a dimension where
there isn't a 'you' and 'me' but rather a synergy that is more than all
that, a space for the eternal to rest within the temporal.
truecrimefanatic.com
it?
We have been wicked sick, first time in many years for us, sorry if I missed
something........
Indiana Tami
'Namaste' is an East Indian greeting which means 'the light within me
bows to the light within you.' In other words, beyond our achy bones,
our tired feet and our multi-colored real life soap operas, lurks a
dimension that is more than the body, the persona, the ego and all the
'trappings and the suits of woe' as Hamlet would say---a dimension where
there isn't a 'you' and 'me' but rather a synergy that is more than all
that, a space for the eternal to rest within the temporal.
truecrimefanatic.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "joylyn" <joylyn@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] quotes
> Those are great! Thanks. I'm using every one.
>
> I don't mind a bart quote, or two. As long as they are not ones for
> which I would be fired.
>
> :-)
>
> Joylyn
>
> Nancy Wooton wrote:
>
> > on 1/9/04 8:13 PM, joylyn at joylyn@... wrote:
> >
> > > I am looking for a few good quotes.
> > >
> > > This is for my classroom, where I'd like to print off a bunch of
quotes
> > > and put them all of the room. All subjects.
> > >
> > > So, can we start a thread on favorite quotes?
> > >
> > > Joylyn
> >
> > I have well over a hundred in my signature line folder on OE <g>
> >
> >
> > --
> > In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find
> > themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer
> > exists.
> > - Eric Hoffer
> >
> > --
> > Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
> > -Chuang-Tzu, philosopher (4th c. BCE)
> >
> > --
> > Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
> > -Neil Postman, professor and author (1931- )
> >
> > --
> > You are never too old to be what you might have been.
> > -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
> >
> > --
> > Not all those that wander are lost.
> > --J.R.R. Tolkien, novelist and philologist (1892-1973)
> >
> >
> > --
> > "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
> > and the rational mind a faithful servant.
> >
> > We have created a society
> > that honors the servant
> > and has forgotten the gift."
> >
> > .... Albert Einstein
> >
> > --
> > The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst
> > lovely things.
> > --Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
> >
> >
> > And my latest addition (I'm sparing you the Bart Simpson Blackboard
Quotes
> > <g>):
> >
> > --
> > The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it,
> > but what
> > they become by it.
> > - John Ruskin
> >
> > Nancy
> >
> >
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In a message dated 1/9/2004 11:45:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, kateod@...
writes:
Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always can do
that but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Amy Kagey
Usborne Books make great holiday gifts!
my Usborne Books website!
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writes:
> "There is no such thing as an uninteresting life. Beneath the dullestAnother Mark Twain:
> exterior exterior there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy."
>
> .......Mark Twain
>
Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always can do
that but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Amy Kagey
Usborne Books make great holiday gifts!
my Usborne Books website!
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Julie Solich
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the
choices one makes."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
That is my most recent favorite off the top of my head.
Jen :o)
Albus Dumbledore says it well too "It is our choices, Harry, that show what
we truly are, far more than our abilities." Although I guess the credit
should go to J.K. Rowling. <g>
Jules
choices one makes."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
That is my most recent favorite off the top of my head.
Jen :o)
Albus Dumbledore says it well too "It is our choices, Harry, that show what
we truly are, far more than our abilities." Although I guess the credit
should go to J.K. Rowling. <g>
Jules
AM Brown
Here are a few I like. Anna
The known is the prison of past conditioning, the unknown is the field of all possibilities
Deepak Chopra
Your mind is like a parachute, it works best when open. Matthias Elter (sometimes credited to Frank Zappa?)
Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact. BJ Palmer
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. Henry Ford
Life is a mystery, solve it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is love, enjoy it. Mother Theresa
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The known is the prison of past conditioning, the unknown is the field of all possibilities
Deepak Chopra
Your mind is like a parachute, it works best when open. Matthias Elter (sometimes credited to Frank Zappa?)
Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact. BJ Palmer
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. Henry Ford
Life is a mystery, solve it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is love, enjoy it. Mother Theresa
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In a message dated 1/10/04 6:45:43 AM, semperliberi@... writes:
<< "Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education
from happening...The average American [should be] content with their humble
role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role." -
William Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889 >>
OH that's a good one.
When people think about supersition and mythology, they often think of far
away exotic or old-timey things, but the biggest piece of superstitious,
mythological ju-ju I've personally seen in the American mantra, "All men are created
equal." Because in its original context, it made pretty good sense. But when
quoted ad nauseum by elementary school teachers, it means "Get off your high
horse," and "You're no better than anyone else," and "You think you're so
smart" and other irritating subtexts.
And people are clearly NOT "created equal," but it's rude to say so.
Politically and socially, there's a point to be made. But when a child who
could run is made to clop along at the pace of the other kids because "we're
all equal," they're making molehills of mountains.
Sandra
<< "Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education
from happening...The average American [should be] content with their humble
role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role." -
William Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889 >>
OH that's a good one.
When people think about supersition and mythology, they often think of far
away exotic or old-timey things, but the biggest piece of superstitious,
mythological ju-ju I've personally seen in the American mantra, "All men are created
equal." Because in its original context, it made pretty good sense. But when
quoted ad nauseum by elementary school teachers, it means "Get off your high
horse," and "You're no better than anyone else," and "You think you're so
smart" and other irritating subtexts.
And people are clearly NOT "created equal," but it's rude to say so.
Politically and socially, there's a point to be made. But when a child who
could run is made to clop along at the pace of the other kids because "we're
all equal," they're making molehills of mountains.
Sandra
Jenny E.
Here's one straight off of our very own Sandra Dodd's site:
"Where learning is concerned, it's never too late and everything counts."
--Sandra Dodd
Jen :o)
Mom to Beck (8) and Dane (5)
Learning the natural way every day!
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"Where learning is concerned, it's never too late and everything counts."
--Sandra Dodd
Jen :o)
Mom to Beck (8) and Dane (5)
Learning the natural way every day!
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Tami
Doesnt Sandra just totally ROCK!!!
She is the one who helped me/us in our unschooling lives and I would so hug
her :) for all her wisdom!!!!!!!
Now, thats a quote :)
Indiana Tami
'Namaste' is an East Indian greeting which means 'the light within me
bows to the light within you.' In other words, beyond our achy bones,
our tired feet and our multi-colored real life soap operas, lurks a
dimension that is more than the body, the persona, the ego and all the
'trappings and the suits of woe' as Hamlet would say---a dimension where
there isn't a 'you' and 'me' but rather a synergy that is more than all
that, a space for the eternal to rest within the temporal.
truecrimefanatic.com
She is the one who helped me/us in our unschooling lives and I would so hug
her :) for all her wisdom!!!!!!!
Now, thats a quote :)
Indiana Tami
'Namaste' is an East Indian greeting which means 'the light within me
bows to the light within you.' In other words, beyond our achy bones,
our tired feet and our multi-colored real life soap operas, lurks a
dimension that is more than the body, the persona, the ego and all the
'trappings and the suits of woe' as Hamlet would say---a dimension where
there isn't a 'you' and 'me' but rather a synergy that is more than all
that, a space for the eternal to rest within the temporal.
truecrimefanatic.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jenny E." <mom2jrjedis@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] quotes
> Here's one straight off of our very own Sandra Dodd's site:
>
> "Where learning is concerned, it's never too late and everything
counts."
> --Sandra Dodd
>
> Jen :o)
> Mom to Beck (8) and Dane (5)
> Learning the natural way every day!
>
>
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>
>
>
>
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In a message dated 1/10/04 11:26:44 PM, tamilabigduquette@...
writes:
<< Doesnt Sandra just totally ROCK!!! >>
Golly gosh.
Thanks!
I thought it was cool to be quoted (and thanks for that, too!)
Sandra
writes:
<< Doesnt Sandra just totally ROCK!!! >>
Golly gosh.
Thanks!
I thought it was cool to be quoted (and thanks for that, too!)
Sandra