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
We have failed...through our lack of responsible awareness...and thus added to suffering around the world. All of us are cripples-some physically, some… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Once the Third World has become a mass market for the goods, products, and processes which are designed by the rich 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
“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
