“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”

— Richard Dawkins, book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

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English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941

M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist

“They teach you how to resist the enemy, how to protect your mind and spirit. They don’t teach you how to resist your own people, especially people who think they’re trying to “help” you see “the truth.””

Max Brooks book World War Z

World War Z

“The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into battle when it’s necessary to do so. If you don’t get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.”

Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Suffering from an evident complex of moral inferiority, a lot of journalists are interested in teaching the Pope how to do the Pope. Suffering from an evident complex of moral superiority, a lot of priests are interested in teaching journalists how to do journalism. But the worst of all are the journalist-priests.”

Leon Bertoletti (1971)

Complexes http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2009/03/complexes.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 22/03/2009

“But how do you get rid of a god? Is there any religion where they teach you that? How to get your god off your back if he gets too damned obnoxious? No. All you ever get is advice on how to bribe them to leave you alone for a few minutes.”

Glen Cook book She Is the Darkness

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 39 (p. 403)

“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.”

Alice Waters (1944) American chef, restaurateur, activist, and author

“You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Source: An Object of Beauty

“It is amazing how well the worst ones think of themselves, and how little the best ones do.”

John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer

Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 22, “The Bubble Bath” (p. 300)

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Source: The Critic as Artist

“Kala is about my mum and her struggle–how do you work, feed your children, nurture them and give them the power of information?”

M.I.A. (1975) British recording artist, songwriter, painter and director

Interview http://www.urb.com/features/183/MIAWorldParty.php?PageId=2 to URB (2007) <br class="br">Sourced quotes

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