#homes

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore. ↗

— Annie Proulx

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Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome; But when it comes to living there is no place like home. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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Education is a system of imposed ignorance. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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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. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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

— Ezra Taft Benson

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Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ↗

— Roger Lewin

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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. ↗

— John Ruskin

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What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all. ↗

— John Holt

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Thank goodness my education was neglected. ↗

— Beatrix Potter

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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. ↗

— Richard Mitchell

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