Once the self-taught man or woman has been discredited,
all non-professional activity is rendered suspect.
In school we are taught that valuable learning is the result of attendance;
that the value of learning increases with the amount of input; and, finally,
that this value can be measured and documented by grades and certificates.

Primary Sources:
Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (1969)
Deschooling Society (1971)
Tools for Conviviality (1973)
Energy and Equity (1974)
Medical Nemesis: The Expropration of Health (1976)
Toward a History of Needs (1977)