To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“P3- everywhere not only education but society as a whole needs deschooling.” — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn? — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“P8- mere existence of school discourages and disables the poor from taking control of their own learning.” — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“P24- the power of school loss to divide social reality has no boundaries education becomes unworldly and the world becomes noneducational” — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“School prepares people for the alienating institutionalization of life, by teaching the necessity of being taught. Once this lesson is learned, people… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“The American university has become the final stage of the most all encompassing initiation rite the world has ever known. No society… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. — Ivan Illich Copy Share
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn? — Ivan Illich Copy Share
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
“P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency” — Ivan Illich Copy Share
“Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
“Welfare bureaucracies claim a professional, political, and financial monopoly over the social imagination, setting standards of what is valuable and what is feasible. This… — Ivan Illich Copy Share
