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John Eaton

"It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples."

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"It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples."

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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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Asa Don Brown

"You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."

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Asa Don Brown

"When asked 'What do we need to learn this for?' any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness."

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Asa Don Brown

"I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less."

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Asa Don Brown

"Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years."

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Asa Don Brown

"In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate."

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Asa Don Brown

"I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade."

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"I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window."
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"We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past."
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"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."
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"I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that."
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