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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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The public school has become the established church of secular society.
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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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Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves they demand to be managed.
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If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.
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Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.
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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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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 most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
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At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
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The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.
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The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
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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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Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.
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Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
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