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Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Everett Reimer

Everett Reimer

Born: 1910
Died: 1998 (aged 88)
Bio: Everett W. Reimer was an education theorist who authored several books on educational policy and was a proponent of deschooling. He was a notable friend of Ivan Illich, whom he met at the Catholic University of Puerto Rico.

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