We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their in… - Ivan Illich
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their in…
- Ivan Illich
The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels o… - Ivan Illich
The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels o…
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. - Ivan Illich
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. - Ivan Illich
We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the abil… - Ivan Illich
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the abil…
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. - Ivan Illich
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. - Ivan Illich
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
The medical establishment has become the major threat to health. - Ivan Illich
The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than… - Ivan Illich
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than…
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