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“We had the schools we wanted, in a way. Parents did not tend to show up at schools demanding that their kids be assigned more challenging reading or that their kindergarteners learn math while they still loved numbers. They did show up to complain about bad grades, however. And they came in droves, with video cameras and lawn chairs and full hearts, to watch their children play sports.”
― Amanda Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

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

“In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.”
― John Taylor Gatto

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
― Edith Södergran