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

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

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

- Ivan Illich

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the abil…

- Ivan Illich

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

- Ivan Illich

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

- Ivan Illich

The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

- 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…

- Ivan Illich