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Blake Boles

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How to Be Authentic

Here are my favorite quotes from Skye Cleary’s 2022 book, How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment. If you like them, buy the book!

A Rebel for Freedom

So how can you become authentic in Beauvoir’s existential sense? Strive to be a creative rebel with a cause. The cause is freedom itself. To become authentic we must free ourselves from oppression as well as self-impo

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A great postscript for fans of The Dirtbag's Guide to Life. Tim's stories aren't just armchair travel—they're touching, reflective, deep, and vulnerable... the personal side of a life dedicated to motion. ...more
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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.”
Blake Boles, 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.”
Blake Boles, 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.”
Blake Boles, 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.”
Richard Bach

“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.”
Winston Churchill

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