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School 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.
- 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;…
- 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…
- We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught…
- 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.
- 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…
- The public school has become the established church of secular society.
- School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are…
- 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.
- School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
- School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.
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