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

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.

Schools teach the need to be taught.

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

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.

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

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.