Acolyte Quotes by Ivan Illich

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Ivan Illich has 60 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people…
• Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
• Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.
• To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.
• Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon…
• School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this…
• The public school has become the established church of secular society.
• Leadership does not depend on being right.

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