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Inspirational Quotes by Ivan Illich
- Leadership does not depend on being right.
- The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place
- The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.
- The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
- Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
- To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.
- At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
- Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.
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