The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there.

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.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.

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.

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.