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

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

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 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

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

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

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