Quotes About Autonomy

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

To think is to differ.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

It's not the job of the teacher to save a child's soul; it is the teacher's job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.

In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.

You aren't accountable to anyone, teachers or family but to yourself. Make sure your surrounding s are clean in all aspects

I was always my own teacher.

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when youre on your own.

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

Why should we try, why not just take the world as it is? I told her how he had said that we had to try because the alternative wasn't blankness – it only meant that if we didn't try ourselves, we would never be free of other people's inventions.

The world is full of men who are attracted to women but aren't really interested in them. Weak women sometimes give in to men like that. As it happens, I don't need a man. I live alone. I work, I read books, and I listen to music. Sometimes I have a visitor in the evening. Sometimes on another evening I have a different visitor. They come and they go. I'm self-sufficient.