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“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress

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“It was interesting to note that higher standards were seen not as an investment in students; they were seen, first and foremost, as a threat to teachers.”
― Amanda Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

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“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.”
― John Taylor Gatto

tags: education, education-system, initiative, self-education

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“Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: douglass, frederick-douglass, freedom, literacy, reading, slavery

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“Work in classrooms isn’t significant work; it fails to satisfy real needs pressing on the individual; it doesn’t answer real questions experience raises in the young mind; it doesn’t contribute to solving any problem encountered in actual life. The net effect of making all schoolwork external to individual longings, experiences, questions, and problems is to render the victim listless.”
― John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

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