Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.
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Date:
- 1999
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
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Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
