"It is a great shock to discover that the world, which one always thought of as an adult world, is not adult at all; it is a world of children, all of whom are playing very complicated games, which the…"

"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."

"If I am not what I’ve been told I am, then I’m not what you think I am."

"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't, you won't live long."

"The paradox of education is precisely this—that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."