School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.

To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.