Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned … - Neil Postman

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School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

Neil Postman

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

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The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.

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The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.

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You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it.

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If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

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Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

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School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

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