Ivan IllichAt the moment of death I hope to be surprised.352DeathHopeTime
Ivan IllichMan must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them. ✨ Deschooling Society (1971) ch. 4352Humanity
Ivan IllichThe public school has become the established church of secular society.375Humanity
Ivan IllichLearning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.375Truth
Ivan IllichThe most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.332Love
Ivan IllichI don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death356Death
Ivan IllichMost learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being with it, yet school ma… ▶357HumanityPhilosophyReading
Ivan IllichSchool has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. ✨ Ivan Illich (1970). The Dawn… ▶346Sadness
Ivan IllichTogether we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.3710Humanity
Ivan IllichI believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, s… ▶325HumanityLifePolitics
Ivan IllichWe 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.314Humanity
Ivan IllichHealthy 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 bureaucrat… ▶304DeathHumanity
Ivan IllichHealth 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 individu… ▶337Life
Ivan IllichI was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that so… ▶251HumanityThought
Ivan IllichThe pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. 295Sadness
Ivan IllichWe must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.285Hope
Ivan IllichSchool prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. ✨ Ivan Illich (1970). The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays263Life
Ivan IllichSchool 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 undesir… ▶253LifeTruth
Ivan IllichThere is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God ✨ Ivan Illich (1970). The church, change, and development275Truth
Ivan IllichThe compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their… ▶255Humanity
Ivan IllichIn 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 defi… ▶211HumanityTime
Ivan IllichObservations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down,… ▶255HumanityPoliticsTime
Ivan IllichNeither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the p… ▶255HopeHumanityPolitics
Ivan IllichIt takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some miss… ▶299HumanityTime
Ivan IllichThe USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research hospital acquires a… ▶222Death
Ivan IllichEffective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.191Truth
Ivan IllichThe household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place. ✨ Shadow work.191Humanity
Ivan IllichThe 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-establ… ▶2710Humanity
Ivan IllichSchools 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 o… ▶194LifeThought
Ivan IllichThe more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of … ▶162HumanityTime
