The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

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

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into the future so that we can take the next step… If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story.

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

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

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