Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.