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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. ↗

— William Howard Taft

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It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger desire than to make sense of the world, to move freely in it, to do the things that he sees bigger people doing. ↗

— John Holt

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Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, learned, worked, and played in the real world, alongside adults and other children of all ages. ↗

— Rachel Gathercole

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Education is a system of imposed ignorance. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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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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Trying to get more learning out of the present system is like trying to get the Pony Express to compete with the telegraph by breeding faster ponies. ↗

— Edward Fiske

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