The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.