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Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Education, Believe, Learning, Advertising, Society
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Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into the future so that we can take the next step… If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story.

Powerful, Past, Light, Change, Whole, Away

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Hope, Expectations, Difficult Times, Distinction, Rediscover

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to grow in independence; they no longer find relatedness attractive, and close themselves off to the surprises which life offers when it is not predetermined by institutional definition.

Teaching, School, People, Surprises, Longer, Relatedness

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

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The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

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