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Ivan Illich Quotes

The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught Picture Quote #1

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age Picture Quote #1

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying. Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die Picture Quote #1

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 than it heals Picture Quote #1

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 declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them Picture Quote #1

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 not only all machines but all other animals as well Picture Quote #1

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In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy Picture Quote #1

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it’s necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable Picture Quote #1

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them Picture Quote #1

Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you’re a flame in the dark Picture Quote #1

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is Picture Quote #1

Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life Picture Quote #1

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Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school Picture Quote #1

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; that secrets can only be known in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags Picture Quote #1

What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn? Picture Quote #1

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 in them Picture Quote #1

Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed Picture Quote #1

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 of confinement during an increasing part of their lives Picture Quote #1

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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 in a ritually defined setting. The most radical alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same concern Picture Quote #1

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 we desire to create Picture Quote #1

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called ‘shadow work,’ not least because that is no small part of their own way of working Picture Quote #1

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The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught (Ivan Illich Quotes) School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age (Ivan Illich Quotes) Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying. Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die (Ivan Illich Quotes) 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 than it heals (Ivan Illich Quotes) 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 declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them (Ivan Illich Quotes) 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 not only all machines but all other animals as well (Ivan Illich Quotes) In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy (Ivan Illich Quotes) Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it’s necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable (Ivan Illich Quotes) Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them (Ivan Illich Quotes) Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you’re a flame in the dark (Ivan Illich Quotes) School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is (Ivan Illich Quotes) Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life (Ivan Illich Quotes) Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school (Ivan Illich Quotes) 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; that secrets can only be known in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags (Ivan Illich Quotes) What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn? (Ivan Illich Quotes) 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 in them (Ivan Illich Quotes) Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed (Ivan Illich Quotes) 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 of confinement during an increasing part of their lives (Ivan Illich Quotes) 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 in a ritually defined setting. The most radical alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same concern (Ivan Illich Quotes) 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 we desire to create (Ivan Illich Quotes) Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called ‘shadow work,’ not least because that is no small part of their own way of working (Ivan Illich Quotes)

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