The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that the mind and spirit of his chi…

- Jules Henry

If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading …

- Jules Henry

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare f…

- Jules Henry

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of …

- Jules Henry

Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture cap…

- Jules Henry

To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinki…

- Jules Henry

A competitive culture endures by tearing people down.

- Jules Henry

Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply …

- Jules Henry

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagio…

- Jules Henry