There Is No Greater Distance

School Prepares For The Alienating Institutionalization Of Life By Teaching The Need To Be Taught. Once This Lesson Is Learned, People Lose Their Incentive To Grow In Independence; They No Longer Find Relatedness Attractive, And Close Themselves Off To The Surprises Which Life Offers When It Is Not Predetermined By Institutional Definition.

School Has Become The World Religion Of A Modernized Proletariat, And Makes Futile Promises Of Salvation To The Poor Of The Technological Age.

We Must Rediscover The Distinction Between Hope And Expectation.

To Deschool Means To Abolish The Power Of One Person To Oblige Another.

The State Shall Make No Law With Respect To The Establishment Of Education.