The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

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

Leadership does not depend on being right.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God

The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.

Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to grow in independence; they no longer find relatedness attractive, and close themselves off to the surprises which life offers when it is not predetermined by institutional definition.