Quotes by : Ivan Illich

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive....

Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. ....

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in....

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

The world-wide discrimination against the autodidact has vitiated many people's confidence in determining....

Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction.....

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as....

P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of....

In a society caught up in the race for the better, limits on change are experienced as a threat. The....