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"I have enjoyed this book very much so far, as in that it is an enjoyable read, but less for the plot and more for a COUPLE of the characters.
I just read chapter 9, and its ending was so unrealistic that it made me blush. GSP really likes to preach at her readers and it's kind of annoying, but Mickey makes up for it." — Jan 21, 2026 03:27PM
"I have enjoyed this book very much so far, as in that it is an enjoyable read, but less for the plot and more for a COUPLE of the characters.
I just read chapter 9, and its ending was so unrealistic that it made me blush. GSP really likes to preach at her readers and it's kind of annoying, but Mickey makes up for it." — Jan 21, 2026 03:27PM
“He put down his roll and reached over and took her gnarled hand, stroking the back of it with his thumb. "I'm trying to tell the child something only you and I can understand. How good it is to be old."
I watched her face go from being startled by his gesture to being pleased that he had somehow joined her side against me. Then she seemed to remember. She drew back her hand.
"We'll die," she said.
"Yes," he said. "But we'll be ready. The young ones never are.”
― Jacob Have I Loved
I watched her face go from being startled by his gesture to being pleased that he had somehow joined her side against me. Then she seemed to remember. She drew back her hand.
"We'll die," she said.
"Yes," he said. "But we'll be ready. The young ones never are.”
― Jacob Have I Loved
“School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.”
― Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
― Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.”
― Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
― Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
“This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.”
― Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
― Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“The home-schooling movement has quietly grown to a size where one and half million young people are being educated entirely by their own parents; last month the education press reported the amazing news that, in their ability to think, children schooled at home seem to be five or even ten years ahead of their formally trained peers.”
― Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
― Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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