Jane Rule Quotes

Think your own thoughts.

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

My message to women is it's okay not to toe the party line on every issue. You don't have to be a puppet or a mouthpiece for your party on every issue. You can be an independent thinker; you can take it issue by issue, and that's okay. You shouldn't be told, 'You can't sit with us.'

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

Don't be anybody's follower, be a student.

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.

I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

I just like doing things from my own head.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.