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Only Quotes by Ivan Illich
- Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret;…
- 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…
- The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
- We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which…
- The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of…
- The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an…
- The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal…
- Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
- I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle…
- Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick…
- The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose…
- The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established…
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