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Do Not Ship a Box to Yourself in Spain from a Non-EU Country
Dear Spanish customs (Aduanas),
Thank you so much for holding onto my backpack for a month and a half.
Silly me—I just wanted to ship a small box to myself from Switzerland. A few clothes, headphones, and a little backpack: some things to make my life easier after a 10-day hike in Portugal (when I didn’t need much) and before a 3-week program in Valencia.
I paid CHF 51 to ship the box from Zurich to
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“The most practical function of modern schooling is to give children a safe place to exist while their parents work. A less flattering way to say this is that school is free childcare.”
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
“School began as an institution that rescued young people from degrading labor. Now schools are the perpetuators of degrading labor.”
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
“For far too many, schools are places where kids are forced to do things that don’t really matter, exclusively for the benefit of adults, when they could be doing something better with their time. In this way, schools are the new child labor.”
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
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“You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”
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“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”
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