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Most Quotes by Ivan Illich
- Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
- Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped,…
- Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place…
- In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems…
- The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
- 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…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster