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"Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."
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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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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
"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
"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
"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
"Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change."
Age
"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
"And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility."
Democracy
"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
"When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in."
Kids
"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
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