John Holt

To parents I say, above all else, don’t let your home become some terrible miniature copy of the school. No lesson plans! No quizzes! No tests! No report cards! Even leaving your kids alone would be better; at least they could figure out some things on their own. Live together, as well as you can; enjoy life together, as much as you can.

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John Taylor Gatto, "Teacher of the Year", New York:

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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves

-Ernest Dimnet

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Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Helen Keller

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One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar.

Heraclitus

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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

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Plutarch

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

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Theodore Roosevelt

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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John Holt

What children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make meaning out of them; and advice, road maps, guidebooks, to make it easier for them to get where they want to go (not where we think they ought to go), and to find out what they want to find out.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”

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James Baldwin

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

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Charlotte Mason

The question is not,—how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education—but how much does he care?"