Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

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

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.

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

Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.

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