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“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”

“It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.”

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Book:The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

Source: The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

Book:Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit

Source: Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit

“Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.”

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Author:Richard Mitchell

“I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.”

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Author:Lisa Whelchel

“My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for anything.”

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Author:Grover Norquist

“Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”

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Book:Education: Ends and Means

Source: Education: Ends and Means

“Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.”

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Book:The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling

Source: The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling

“If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.”

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Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.”

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Author:William Howard Taft

“Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest.”

“Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.”

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Author:Melinda Harmon

“Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury.”

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Author:Jack Abramoff

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

“Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.”

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Author:Plato

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”

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