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“Those students who do not dread thinking will often come to classes assuming that thinking will not be necessary, that all they will need to do is consume information and regurgitate it at the appropriate moments.” 

 “Most children are taught early on that thinking is dangerous. Sadly, these children stop enjoying the process of thinking and start fearing the thinking mind.”
 

"Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor." 

"Once their social role has been "diagnosed," children are to be sorted by role and trained only so far as their destination in the social machine merits - and not one step further. So much for making kids their personal best."

"It is not that in my own gloom I predict doom for the students. Children can learn and grow in other arrangements. I merely assert-and parents and community members who are rallying in an attempt to save the program agree-that at this point in the children's lives, afternoons they spend in the program are better than afternoons without it."

"Well, hopefully they'll be lining up the door" Freedom writers