It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems in a ritually defined setting. The most radical alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same concern.

Schools teach the need to be taught.

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

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.