We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

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

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.

Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.

I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships.