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For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from which he supposed he should have emerged a better person, but that’s not really what happened—and if there were any lessons to be gleaned from the ordeal of those years he never quite figured out what they were. He walked into school every day like the fat lonely nerdy kid he was, and all he could think about was the day of his manumission, when he would at last be set free from its unending horror. Hey, Oscar, are there faggots on Mars?—Hey, Kazoo, catch this. The first time he heard the term moronic inferno he know exactly where it was located and who were its inhabitants. ↗


— Junot Díaz


#geeks #nerd #nerdiness #nerds #school

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away. ↗


— Derrick Jensen


#life-experience #schooling #time #experience

More important...you've assembled a curriculum that works for him. It's his education. I suspect he's more likely to have a real education, an education that sticks, if he's part of shaping it. ↗


— Quinn Cummings


#education

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. ↗


— John Taylor Gatto


#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself ↗


— Alexander Sutherland Neill


#philosophy #unschooling #education

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling. ↗


— Philip Emeagwali


#dropped #due #eight #financial #formal

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. ↗


— Ivan Illich


#homeschool #homeschooling #education

Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. "Leadership qualities" are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders. ↗


— John Holt


#homeschooling #leadership #unschooling #courage

The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best ↗


— Alexander Sutherland Neill


#education #homeschooling #education

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature. ↗


— Charlotte M. Mason


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