Established Church Quotes by Ivan Illich

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• 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.
• Leadership does not depend on being right.
• 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…
• The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place
• Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another…
• School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their…
• The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product,…
• The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.
• What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?

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