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A.S. Neill Quotes: I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.
         

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.


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We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.



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