All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
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