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“Kid's heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read, they can't write, they can't think. Talk about child abuse. The U.S. school system as a whole qualifies.”

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Frank Zappa was an influential American musician, composer, music producer, guitarist, and singer. His musical style combined elements of rock, jazz, classical, and world music, making him an innovator in the music industry. Known for his unique musical talent and satirical lyrics, Zappa's work has had a profound impact on the development of music in the post-war era. more

“In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.”

“I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.”

Space West Open Spaces

Author:David Hockney

“Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.”

Should Helping Used Environment Youth Instruments Revolutionary Aggression New Environment

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.”

Way May Children Ideas Culture Strange Smart Adults Dumb Educate

Author:Marvin Minsky

“For me it's not a question of whether we should intrude in family life, but how and when.”

Should Family Life

Author:Margaret Hodge

“In education, it is said that the state must impose schooling on all children, else the parents and communities will neglect it. Only the state can make sure that no child is left behind. The only question is the means: will we use the union and bureaucracies favored by the left, or the market incentives and vouchers favored by the right. I don't want to get into a debate about which means is better, but only to draw attention to the reality that these are both forms of planning that compromise the freedom of families to manage their own affairs.”

“If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all societies and businesses, we should simply remember: diversity works.”

Ifs Want Should Two Remember Natural Theory Evolution Diversity Selection Relevance Natural Selection Theory Of Evolution

Book:The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature: The Science of Success

Source: The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature: The Science of Success

“A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.”

Problem Government Situation Solutions Court Agency Stakeholder Government Agencies

Book:Managing for Stakeholders: Survival, Reputation, and Success

Source: Managing for Stakeholders: Survival, Reputation, and Success

“Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and 'Pas trop gouverner' are at war with all kinds of slavery, for they in fact assert that individuals and peoples prosper most when governed least.”

Kind War Facts Political Individual Economy Position Theory Fundamentals Slavery All Kinds Maxims Free Society Laissez Faire Political Economy

Book:Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society

Source: Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society

“A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution.”

Ifs Shows Government Might Would Be Principles Constitution Arbitrary Constitutional Government

Book:The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis

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