Schools teach the need to be taught.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

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

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.

We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.

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