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There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world. Its an idea with revolutionary implications. If we take it seriously.

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Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

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Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

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Life may be brimming over with experiences, but somewhere, deep inside, all of us carry a vast and fruitful loneliness wherever we go. And sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.
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Deborah Meier

Deborah Meier

Born: April 6, 1931 (age 95)
Bio: Deborah Meier is an American educator often considered the founder of the modern small schools movement.
Known for:
  1. The power of their ideas (1995)
  2. In Schools We Trust (2002)
  3. Will Standards Save Public Education (2000)

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