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If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.
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
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Philosopher
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Vienna
Austria
Ivan D. Illich
Ivan Dominic Illich
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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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The public school has become the established church of secular society.
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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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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God
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The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
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The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.
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Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
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I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships.
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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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It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.
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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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Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
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To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.
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The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
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The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.
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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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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
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Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
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The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.
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People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.
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