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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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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
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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 pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.
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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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We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
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To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.
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The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.
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Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.
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If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.
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The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
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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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The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.
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Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.
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The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
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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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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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It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.
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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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