Carry A Candle In The Dark, Be

To Be Ignorant Or Unconvinced Of One's Own Needs Has Become The Unforgivable Anti-social Act. The Good Citizen Is One Who Imputes Standardized Needs To Himself With Such Conviction That He Drowns Out Any Desire For Alternatives, Much Less The Renunciation Of Need.

I Intend To Discuss Some Perplexing Issues Which Are Raised Once We Embrace The Hypothesis That Society Can Be Deschooled; To Search For Criteria Which May Help Us Distinguish Institutions Which Merit Development Because They Support Learning In A Deschooled Milieu; And To Clarify Those Personal Goals Which Would Foster The Advent Of An Age Of Leisure (schole) As Opposed To An Economy Dominated By Service Industries.

Learning From Programmed Information Always Hides Reality Behind A Screen.

I Believe That A Desirable Future Depends On Our Deliberately Choosing A Life Of Action Over A Life Of Consumption, On Our Engendering A Lifestyle Which Will Enable Us To Be Spontaneous, Independent, Yet Related To Each Other, Rather Than Maintaining A Lifestyle Which Only Allows To Make And Unmake, Produce And Consume - A Style Of Life Which Is Merely A Way Station On The Road To The Depletion And Pollution Of The Environment. The Future Depends More Upon Our Choice Of Institutions Which Support A Life Of Action Than On Our Developing New Ideologies And Technologies.

I Was Recently Told, 'you're A Liar!' When I Said To Somebody I Walked Down The Spine Of The Andes. Every Spaniard In The Sixteenth, Seventeenth Century Did That. The Idea That Somebody Could Just Walk! He Can Jog Perhaps In The Morning, But He Can't Walk Anywhere! The World Has Become Inaccessible Because We Drive There.