Quotes About Individuality

You have to keep doing it, Even if no one is watching. The best artists, are those Who live from their expressions, Not chasing the impressions.

You are the only one who can dream your dreams.

Do what others do not do, Believe in what others do not believe, Feel what others cant feel, Become what others cannot be

Do not postpone what's important to you simply because others don't share your priorities

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit, what they're interested in. That's what really shines.

My music is definitely very personal. The songs are about moments, snapshots of everyday life, and about having one's say, or at least feeling like one has had one's say.

If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.

I think I'm pretty confident, and I know I'm different than everyone else, so I'm going to do what's me.

I'm all about zagging when everyone else is zigging.