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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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"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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Personal Development
"No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids."
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"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."
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"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."
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Personal Development
"Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them."
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"I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to New Kids on the Block."
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"The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them."
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"My songs are like my kids."
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"Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else."
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"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
"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
"We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy."
Education
"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
"Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much."
Change
"Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them."
Friendship
"Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now."
Technology
"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
"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
"You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will."
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