Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.
Erich FrommThe danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.
Erich FrommThe duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.
Erich FrommIn the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.
Erich Fromm