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"And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
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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."
"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."
"If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration."
"So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country."
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