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Ivan Illich quotes

American Sociologist September 4, 1926 – December 2, 2002

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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
Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to mimic "economic" behavior and to engage in internecine competition for the scarce oxygen available in their environment. A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age. Ivan Illich
The 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 blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. Ivan Illich
Most 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 makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation. Ivan Illich
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
I 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 somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there. Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich quote: "At the moment of death I hope to be surprised."
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich quote: "There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer..."
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. 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 re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them. Ivan Illich
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
Ivan Illich quote: "Leadership does not depend on being right."
Leadership does not depend on being right. Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich quote: "We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation."
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. Ivan Illich
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
Ivan Illich quote: "Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is..."
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich quote: "Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that..."
Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark. Ivan Illich

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