Quotes About Autonomy

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

The only person who can fix education is the student.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

I would get rid of the Department of Education. I would get rid of the state departments of education and let the local people control the schools.

Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .

I believe in local control of education.

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

I believe this choice is ethical, and what makes it ethical is it is a choice.

Who has the right to tell me that I don't deserve this choice?

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.

She finally said: 'I want to provide you with the opportunity to be free to make a choice of belonging with someone, but never to someone else'.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

In my experience as a record producer, the people who most get involved are the people from independent labels who feel they have more to do with it; it's their "baby" kind of thing.

The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.