Occupation: Philosopher Birth: September 4, 1926 Death: December 2, 2002
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….
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their in….
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation..
The medical establishment has become the major threat to health..
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is..
To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another..
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting..
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….
In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermin….
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery..
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists..
The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in t….
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 ….
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught..
Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them..
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best b….
The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improve….
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 ….
Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of ….
Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental ….
We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter wha….