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Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention


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Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.



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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.



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

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.



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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.





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