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Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.


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If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture



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It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.



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If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.



We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.



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Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.



At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.



People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.



Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.



I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.



It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.





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I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.



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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.




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