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The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education. — Ivan Illich

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. — Ivan Illich

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. — Ivan Illich

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. — Ivan Illich

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

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. — Ivan Illich

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen. — Ivan Illich

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized. — Ivan Illich

Leadership does not depend on being right. — Ivan Illich

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story. — Ivan Illich

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

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

P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty — Ivan Illich

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable. — Ivan Illich

P3- everywhere not only education but society as a whole needs deschooling. — Ivan Illich

The medical establishment has become the major threat to health. — Ivan Illich

Schools teach the need to be taught. — Ivan Illich

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them. — Ivan Illich

What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn? — Ivan Illich

P24- the power of school loss to divide social reality has no boundaries education becomes unworldly and the world becomes noneducational — Ivan Illich

Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need. — Ivan Illich

Pointing to radio as an example, Illich argued that technologies become useful only when people can teach themselves about those technologies. — Michael Swaine

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. — Ivan Illich

P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency — Ivan Illich

People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them. — 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

The public is indoctrinated to believe that skills are valuable and reliable only if they are the result of formal schooling. — Ivan Illich

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. — Ivan Illich

I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death — Ivan Illich

The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place — Ivan Illich

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

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching. — Ivan Illich

Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark. — Ivan Illich

I know of no industrial society where women are the economic equals of men. Of everything that economics measures, women get less. — Ivan Illich

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich

A political program which does not explicitly recognize the need for deschooling is not revolutionary; it is demagoguery calling for more of the same. — Ivan Illich

To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another. — Ivan Illich

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. — Jane Hirshfield

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us. — Ivan Illich

P8- mere existence of school discourages and disables the poor from taking control of their own learning. — Ivan Illich

To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol. — Ivan Illich

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school. — Ivan Illich

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

P7- citizens have learned to think rich and live poor. — Ivan Illich