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
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are… — 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
“All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize that jobs can also destroy the use-value of free… — 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
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
I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable... self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and… — 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
I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins… — 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
“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
“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 Image
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 Image
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — 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 knowing that… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education. — 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
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 Image
To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
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 Image
“P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency” — 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 an environment… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
