The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.
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.
- 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
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their in…
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.
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…
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.
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. - Ivan Illich
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
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…
The medical establishment has become the major threat to health. - Ivan Illich
The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.
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