Schools teach the need to be taught.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

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.

What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?

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

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