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He'd grown up in walled spaces, and then he had become one. He had shut things out.
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We suffer, these days, from a bad habit. We eat "fast food," nibble at "fast ideas," scan "fast headlines," and buy our panaceas in the form of easily swallowed pills. The need to think out the logic of certain premises is almost totally alien to the "American Way" of the late 20th century.
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To try to force all young people in a single mold will ensure that many will not reach adulthood prepared to cope effectively with their responsibilities.
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Let first the children inculcate order among themselves, and later on, the laboratory, the workshop, work done in a limited space, with many tools about, will teach them method. But do not make disorderly beings out of them by your school, whose only order is the symmetry of its benches, and which -- true image of the chaos in its teachings -- will never inspire anybody with the love of harmony, of consistency, and method in work.
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...all our training today [in public schools] is a training for consumption, and if that be true it is a most unintelligent training.
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American universities are moving with the tide and are on the way to transforming themselves into vast automated degree-punching factories, equipped with computers, closed-circuit television, and rows of teaching machines. At one end of the factory the raw freshmen are sucked in and, with the minimum of human contact, are passed from process to process, imbibing information on the way, regurgitating it at set intervals to be inspected by machines. If not revealed defective they will emerge at the other end, exhausted perhaps, but ready to be stamped with the firm's warranty.
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I had won two scholarships but I was a failure, because success was measured not by what you did but by what you were. I was "not a good type of boy" and could bring no credit on the school. I did not possess character or courage or health or strength or money, or even good manners, the power to look like a gentlemen.
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For those who have been misinstructed from infancy, who have now influence and are active in the world, and whose activity is directed by the false notions of their forefathers, will of course endeavor to obstruct the change. Those who have been systematically impressed with early errors, and conscientiously think them to be truths, will of necessity, while such errors remain, endeavor to perpetuate them in their children.
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April 13, 2020 : Conformity -- Added.
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