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Bill Watterson _ Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
You can present the material, but you can't make me care.
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Doris Lessing _ The Golden Notebook
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself - educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.
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Charles Murray _ Coming Apart: The State of
The main vehicle for nineteenth-century socialization was the leading textbook used in elementary school. They were so widely used that sections in them became part of the national language. Theodore Roosevelt, scion of an elite New York family, schooled by private tutors, had been raised on the same textbooks as the children of Ohio farmers, Chicago tradesman, and New England fishermen. If you want to know what constituted being a good American from the mid-nineteenth century to World War I, spend a few hours browsing through the sections in the McGuffey Readers."
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Drexel Deal _ The Fight of My Life is
School in itself is a microcosm of society. These kids bring a lot of baggage with them, and as teachers with 30 plus kids in your classroom you have to take the time to get to know them, and not just see them as people you have to teach. And if they want to learn they will learn, and if they don't want too then too bad. But you have to see them as your surrogate children. Charles Chuck Mackey, former vice principal and coach of R. M. Bailey Pacers…
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Edith Hamilton _ The Greek Way
Convention {is} so often a mask for injustice."
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau _ Emile or On Education
A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.
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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books
One reads for oneself and for strangers.
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Anonymous _ Qurʾan / القرآن الكريم
The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.
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Charles A. Coulombe _ Vicars of Christ: A History of
There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress."
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George Bernard Shaw _ Misalliance
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ Le deuxième sexe II
On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.
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George Eliot _ Middlemarch
It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
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