Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illichwas an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and "maverick social critic" of the institutions of contemporary Western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth4 September 1926
CountryUnited States of America
hands choices style
A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.
school taught needs
Schools teach the need to be taught.
teaching learning advancement
The 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.
wages consumption household
The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place
kindness skills people
Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.
law establishment states
The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.
taken belief unending
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.
school important taught
The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
prayer distance men
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God
dark drug suffering
The 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 an iatrogenic (Caused by the treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures.
morning liars ideas
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.
school men together
Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
education school secular-society
The public school has become the established church of secular society.
loss satisfaction kind
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.