In case it is not obvious, whilst many of these quotations are consistent with Taking Children Seriously, many of them are not. Sometimes it is just interesting that that person said it, or it is interesting for some other reason.
“ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS”
– George Orwell, 1945, Animal Farm, Chapter 10, p. 111
“We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will.”
– George Orwell, 1949, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p. 258
“[W]hen you see what the elementary schools are like, and the results, you feel that any child that has the chance should be rescued from them.”
– George Orwell, letter to Julian Symons, in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, Vol. 4 [1945-1950] – In Front of Your Nose, by George Orwell, 1968, p. 451
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