The Medical Establishment Has Become The Major

At The Moment Of Death I Hope To Be Surprised.

It Takes More Time And Effort And Delicacy To Learn The Silence Of A People Than To Learn Its Sounds. Some People Have A Special Gift For This. Perhaps This Explains Why Some Missionaries, Notwithstanding Their Efforts, Never Come To Speak Properly, To Communicate Delicately Through Silences. Although They "speak With The Accent Of Natives" They Remain Forever Thousands Of Miles Away. The Learning Of The Grammar Of Silence Is An Art Much More Difficult To Learn Than The Grammar Of Sounds.

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

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.

The Depersonalizati On Of Diagnosis And Therapy Has Changed Malpractice From An Ethical Into A Technical Problem.