“When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.”
Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician
“I just can’t do it anymore. I can’t train children to wait to be told what to do; I can’t train people to drop what they are doing when a bell sounds; I can’t persuade children to feel some justice in their class placement when there isn’t any, and I can’t persuade children to believe teachers have valuable secrets they can acquire by becoming our disciples. That isn’t true.”
Source: "I Quit, I Think" (1991)
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