What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn? — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and… — 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
Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The idea of Homo monolinguis - one-languaged man - the idea of children having to grow into one system before we confuse… — 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
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them. — 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
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work,… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Up to now, economic development has always meant that people, instead of doing something, are enabled to buy it... Economic development has… — 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
The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals.… — 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
