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"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
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"The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe."
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"I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get."
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"The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it."
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"I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed."
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Personal Development
"I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear."
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"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."
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"If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts."
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"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."
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"Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds."
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"I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children."
Success
"Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do."
Time
"I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world."
People
"Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country."
Creativity
"In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today."
Work
"But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way."
Family
"Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school."
Experience
"But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents."
Life
"When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in."
Kids
"And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility."
Democracy
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