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"We want our children to become who they are--- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it doesn't mean doing what you want. Freedom means the ability to make choices that ..."

"There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge."

"Education is a system of imposed ignorance."

"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."

"Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is fo..."

"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."

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding."

"The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made..."

"It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read."

"The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best"