Edgar Z. Friedenberg

“Not all schooling is education, nor all education, schooling.”

“Adolescence is the period in which a young person learns who he is, and what he really feels. It is the time in which he differentiates himself from his culture, though on the culture's terms.”

“What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere, is learned because it is important to the learner, not to the teacher.”

“A high school is a place where a kid learns to be a nobody.”

“The school is the first social institution an individual is forced to attend. It is the first public experience of those who will be the public.”

“A society that has no purposes of its own, other than to insure domestic tranquility by suitable medication, will have no Jugendliche at all. It will have everybody.”

“Freedom is the source of all human dignity.”

“It is the function of the school to teach the young to accept the culture of their elders.”

“A genuinely democratic society would not be one in which all men were equal, but one in which all men were equally free to be different.”