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The public school has become the established church of secular society.
Ivan Illich
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Ivan Illich
Age: 76 †
Born: 1926
Born: September 4
Died: 2002
Died: December 2
Anthropologist
Catholic Priest
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Literary Critic
Pedagogue
Philosopher
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Vienna
Austria
Ivan D. Illich
Ivan Dominic Illich
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