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We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the l...

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One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type ...

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In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my lif...

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The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us brok...

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from bei...

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Mr. Polly went into the National School at six and he left the private school at fourteen, and by th...

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H. G. WellsThe History of Mr. Polly

Since in early youth it cannot be known what ends are likely to occur to us in the course of life, p...

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Immanuel KantFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...

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To understand a child we have to watch him at play, study him in his different moods; we cannot proj...

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Jiddu KrishnamurtiEducation and the Significance of Life

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Yet that is considered an excellent school, and I dare say it would be if the benighted lady did not...

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I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too muc...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think ...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educato...

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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...

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I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

What I learned on my own I still remember

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Education is a natural community function and occurs inevitably, since the young grow up on the old,...

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Paul GoodmanCompulsory Mis-education/The Community of Scholars

When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in ...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The student’s biggest problem was a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values