Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God did… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.” — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Our market-intensive societies measure material progress by the increase in the volume and variety of commodities produced. And taking our cue from… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the employment level, generates deviance, and… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work.… — 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 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
The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“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 Image
