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Schools teach the need to be taught.
Leadership does not depend on being right.
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.
I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death
Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.
I've nothing against schools! I'm against compulsory schooling.
The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.
The public school has become the established church of secular society.
Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.
The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.
Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.
People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.
It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.
In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.
Huge institutions producing costly services dominate the horizons of our inventiveness.
Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.
The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.
The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
Tools can rule men sooner than they expect; the plow makes man the lord of the garden but also the refugee from the dust bowl.
We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.
So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense of possibilities.
I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable... self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life.
We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.
We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.
By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with 'education.'
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I didn't want to go into the papal bureaucracy, so I thought of doing a postdoctoral thesis, which they call a 'Habilitation' in German universities, on alchemy in the work of Albert the Great.