The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
