"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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"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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"If you want to be happy, be."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

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"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."

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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

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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