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Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make...

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The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was ...

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

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

Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must...

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Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Demo...

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It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to l...

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Arthur Conan DoyleSherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly be...

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There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me tw...

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Schools are even less efficient in the arrangement of the circumstances which encourage the open-end...

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Ivan IllichDeschooling Society

Skill teachers are made scarce by the belief in the value oflicenses. Certification constitutes a fo...

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Ivan IllichDeschooling Society

In fact, healthy students often redouble their resistance to teaching as they find themselves more c...

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Ivan IllichDeschooling Society

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

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Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't att...

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Ken RobinsonThe Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authori...

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