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

Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

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.

Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret; that secrets can only be known in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags.