150 quotes found
“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, call...”
“Go beyond the boundary of conformity to find the true joy of life.”
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system o...”
“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge t...”
“Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.”
“It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.”
“A true education opens the mind and lets us see the world with wonder and joy. It teaches us to accept change with love, and it teaches us to be harmonious with humanity and nature. If any educatio...”
“When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. T...”
“It is often difficult to educate a child about the beauty of an open mind when he is a prisoner of societal conformity.”
“True education expands your imagination. False education fills your mind with dogma and makes you a prisoner of conformity.”
“(He) committed the cardinal sin in a college atmosphere not only of being different but of being different in a way that left a lot of people with the impression that he thought he was better than ...”
“Reviewing bad books is bad for the character WH Auden”
“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
“Learning has been liberated from the despotism of the few and is now available to the mass public for one's own evolution. Yet many of us continue to find solace in illusions, in conformity to syst...”
“Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism”
“We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line....”
“It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the...”
“There is a time in a boys life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.”
“Dont conform. Dont live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you.”
“You are only free when you can grow wings of wisdom to fly away from the cage of societal conformity.”
