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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

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The public school has become the established church of secular society.

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Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction.

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Institutional wisdom tells us that children need school. Institutional wisdom tells us that children learn in school. But this institutional wisdom is...more

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Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by...more

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Schools are even less efficient in the arrangement of the circumstances which encourage the open-ended, exploratory use of acquired skills, for which ...more

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Skill teachers are made scarce by the belief in the value oflicenses. Certification constitutes a form of market manipulation and is plausible only to...more

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In fact, healthy students often redouble their resistance to teaching as they find themselves more comprehensively manipulated. This resistance is due...more

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We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced...more

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Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment where the...more