We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.

The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

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.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

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

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.