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Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
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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Vienna
Austria
Ivan D. Illich
Ivan Dominic Illich
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Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
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I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there.
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Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being with it, yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.
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People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.
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The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
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Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.
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School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.
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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God
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Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
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Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.
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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.
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The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
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Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
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Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.
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School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
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If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.
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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.
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The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.
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The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
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