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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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The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.
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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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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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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.
Ivan Illich
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
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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.
Ivan Illich
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.
Ivan Illich
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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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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Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.
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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 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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Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
Ivan Illich
It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.
Ivan Illich
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.
Ivan Illich
People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.
Ivan Illich
Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
Ivan Illich
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.
Ivan Illich
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
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