Animal Quote by Ivan Illich

“Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on…

— Ivan Illich

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…

— Ivan Illich

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

— Ivan Illich

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

— 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…

— Ivan Illich

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

— Ivan Illich

What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?

— Ivan Illich

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to…

— Ivan Illich

To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.

— Ivan Illich

Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called…

— Ivan Illich

“P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency”

— Ivan Illich

“Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment…

— Ivan Illich