Quotes About Individuality

don't think that warriors fit your standards

Following the herd reduces you to a cow.

Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There's no how-to road map to style. It's about self-expression and, above all, attitude.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

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

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.

What you are is a question only you can answer.