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Learning Quotes by Ivan Illich
- It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special…
- Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
- The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
- 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…
- 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…
- School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
- Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.
- School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.
- The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say…
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- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
- He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus