The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

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.

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

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 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.