Occupation: Philosopher Birth: September 4, 1926 Death: December 2, 2002
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite….
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "aposto….
The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients admitted to a typica….
The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the effi….
In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized..
Leadership does not depend on being right..
To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol..
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age..
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away t….
I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria whi….
It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching..
Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The ….
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for pe….
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Hea….
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..
People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them..
The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem..
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels o….
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the abil….
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy..