In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermin….

What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?.

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education..

The public school has become the established church of secular society..

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised..

I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth cent….

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable..

A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its soci….

The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore al….

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school..

I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death.

Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently….

To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs ….

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists..

We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which w….

The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place..

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting..

Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many struc….

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery..

Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret; that ….

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them..