Clay Zdobylak

“We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.”
― Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

“everywhere the school system has the same structure, and everywhere its hidden curriculum has the same effect. Invariably, it shapes the consumer who values institutional commodities above the nonprofessional ministration of a neighbor. Everywhere the hidden curriculum of schooling initiates the citizen to the myth that bureaucracies guided by scientific knowledge are efficient and benevolent.”
― Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

“America’s commitment to the compulsory education of its young now reveals itself to be as futile as the pretended American commitment to compulsory democratization of the Vietnamese.”
― Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

“To treat someone else as an end [as opposed to a mean] is to offer them what I take to be good reasons for acting in one way rather than another, but to leave it to them to evaluate those reasons.”
― Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue