Enjoy the best Ivan Illich Quotes. Quotations by Ivan Illich (Austrian Philosopher)
Jan 01, 1926 - Jan 01, 2002
We confuse process and substance; health with treatment, or learning with schooling.
Skills are valuable only if they are the result of formal schooling—this is a delusion.
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait.
You must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It is organized to serve itself.
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat.
In a consumer society there are two kind of slaves: prisoners of addiction and envy.
Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is the result of unhampered participation.
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.