Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

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

Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.

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.

What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?

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

The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always and everywhere imply more privileges for a few... Underdevelopment is the result of a state of mind common to both socialist and capitalist countries. Present development goals are neither desirable nor reasonable. Unfortunately antiimperialism is no antidote.