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

The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues t…

- Jules Henry

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

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

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

Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died…

- Jules Henry

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, fo…

- 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