Quotes About Autonomy

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

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

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

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.

Parents do not own their children. They have no 'natural right' to control their education fully.

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.

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 in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

I know him very well, but I think Alessandro Del Piero knows himself the best, better than everyone else, so only he can answer the question if he needs to stop or needs to play. It's his own decision.

I can't control what everyone else does, I can't control anybody else's behavior, but I can control mine.

You should be able to wear exactly what you want to wear.

I'm all about doing things myself because I find it hard to trust other people. Not trust, but I know exactly what I want to do, and I know exactly how it's supposed to look.

If you have excellent people, then you have to give them the power.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

I didn't listen to executives.

I don't need the gym for exercising, I can do it on my own.

One man is quite enough for me, I'd find three exhausting!

I can't do anything about what other people expect me to do.

I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there's always going to be expectations.