In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

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. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to grow in independence; they no longer find relatedness attractive, and close themselves off to the surprises which life offers when it is not predetermined by institutional definition.

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.

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

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