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Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

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Daniel Quinn
Age: 82 †
Born: 1935
Born: October 11
Died: 2018
Died: February 17
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Nebraska
Daniel Clarence Quinn
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No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.
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The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.
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The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.
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From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.
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Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.
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If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
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Courage is the virtue of the free.
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The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet--it doesn't belong to us. We got confused about that, now it's time to set the record straight
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But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live
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Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!
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We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.
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I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or learn the zen of archery or meditate or align my chakras or uncover mast incarnations...I was after something else entirely, but it wasn't in the Yellow Pages or anywhere else that I could discover.
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We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.
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five severed fingers do not make a hand
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We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.
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I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely.
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You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.
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The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them - the things they need to know - and forget the rest.
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....he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone.
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You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.
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