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Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

Ivan Illich

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Ivan Illich
Age: 76 †
Born: 1926
Born: September 4
Died: 2002
Died: December 2
Anthropologist
Catholic Priest
Historian
Literary Critic
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Ivan D. Illich
Ivan Dominic Illich
Information
Reality
Programmed
Always
Hides
Screen
Screens
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Behind
Learning

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