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Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling by John C. Holt

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It was being taught, in the sense of being trained like circus animals to do tricks on demand, that had made them stupid (at least in school).

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“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.”
― David Hume

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“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous - Kim

tags: fear, liars, self-deception

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“All get what they want; they do not always like it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

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“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”
― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

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“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus

tags: atheism, religion

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