Many adults are immature and rather childish, and this is a contributing cause of the confusion and misery in the world. It is the older people who are responsible for the prevailing economic and moral crisis; and one of our unfortunate weaknesses is that we want someone else to act for us and change the course of our lives.

hope for fundamental change in the school system as an effect of conventionally conceived social or economic change is also an illusion. Moreover, this illusion grants the school—the reproductive organ of a consumer society—almost unquestioned immunity.

Self-sufficiency In 1830, American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson published his influential essay Self Reliance in which he urged people to avoid conformity and to follow their own instincts and ideas. He encouraged people to discover the genius within and realise their self-worth. Milllennia before, Plato’s contemporary Hippias of Elis taug

Everywhere the hidden curriculum of schooling initiates the citizen to the myth that bureaucracies guided by scientific knowledge are efficient and benevolent.