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Institutional Quotes by Ivan Illich
- School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to…
- School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming…
More Institutional Quotes
- For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such… — Ronald Reagan
- But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast… — Thomas M. Disch
- There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it… — Mark Ruffalo
- ...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of… — Unknown Author
- Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path… — Douglass North
- The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers… — Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
- Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.… — Lewis H. Lapham
- The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism… — John le Carre