In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.


The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick: 1974 (ed. Underwood Books, 1991)

Philip K. Dick Quotes

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to...

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to...

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to...

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to...