All Ivan Illich Quotes
- Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick… Doctors
- Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying...… Birth
- At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. Death
- The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose… Acceptance
- The public school has become the established church of secular society. Church
- Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. Care
- School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are… Anything Else
- Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark. Candle
- Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by… Best
- 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 re-established… Ability
- School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. Advertising
- I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth,… Andes
- School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. Age
- Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them. Choose
- Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen. Always Hides
- School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Alienating
- The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say… Ability
- In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. Addiction