Sadly, children’s passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. bell hooks

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Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling

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[F]or the vast majority of students, academic study is nothing more than vocational training. Because ‘academic study has no bearing on life,’ it must be

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[E]ducation is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible. This is particularly true of elementary and secondary education, of course….

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http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:256926 Cevin Soling | November 30, 2009 | ColbertNation.com – Cevin Soling says public schools have been transformed into prisons because of an overdependence on

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