School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

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

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

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

I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there.