Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones