“ School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Les enfants sont par définition des apprentis, et apprendre est l'activité humaine qui nécessite le moins de manipulation par autrui. La majeure partie de l'apprentissage n'est pas le resultat de l'instruction. Elle serait plutôt le résultat d'une participation dans un environnement chargé de sens. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ An ever growing part of our major institutions’ functions is the cultivation and maintenance of three sets of illusions which turn the citizen into a client to be saved by experts...The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their goals by purchasing goods and services. This illusion is due to an educated blindness to the worth of usevalues in the total economy. In none of the economic models serving as national guidelines is there a variable to account for nonmarketable usevalues any more than there is a variable for nature's perennial contribution. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ Les enfants sont par définition des apprentis, et apprendre est l'activité humaine qui nécessite le moins de manipulation par autrui. La majeure partie de l'apprentissage n'est pas le resultat de l'instruction. Elle serait plutôt le résultat d'une participation dans un environnement chargé de sens. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent dropout, to allow one's children to play in an environment where they listen to people rather than to stars, speakers, or instructors. All over the world, one can see the rapid encroachment of the disciplined acquiescence that characterizes the audience, the client, the customer. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by nouns which name packages designed for passive consumption only 'to learn' becomes 'to accumulate credits'. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ Schools are even less efficient in the arrangement of the circumstances which encourage the openended, exploratory use of acquired skills, for which I will reserve the term "liberal education." The main reason for this is that school is obligatory and becomes schooling for schooling's sake: an enforced stay in the company of teachers, which pays off in the doubtful privilege of more such company. Just as skill instruction must be freed from curricular restraints, so must liberal education be dissociated from obligatory attendance. Both skilllearning and education for inventive and creative behavior can be aided by institutional arrangement, but they are of a different, frequently opposed nature. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ Skill teachers are made scarce by the belief in the value of licenses. Certification constitutes a form of market manipulation and is plausible only to a schooled mind. Most teachers of arts and trades are less skillful, less inventive, and less communicative than the best craftsmen and tradesmen. Most highschool teachers of Spanish or French do not speak the language as correctly as their pupils might after half a year of competent drills. Experimentsconducted by Angel Quintero in Puerto Rico suggest that many young teenagers, if given the proper incentives, programs, and access to tools, are better than most schoolteachers at introducing their peers to the scientific exploration of plants, stars, and matter, and to the discovery of how and why a motor or a radio functions. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ In fact, healthy students often redouble their resistance to teaching as they find themselves more comprehensively manipulated. This resistance is due not to the authoritarian style of a public school or the seductive style of some free schools, but to the fundamental approach common to all schoolsthe idea that one person's judgment should determine what and when another person must learn. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ An ever growing part of our major institutions’ functions is the cultivation and maintenance of three sets of illusions which turn the citizen into a client to be saved by experts...The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their goals by purchasing goods and services. This illusion is due to an educated blindness to the worth of usevalues in the total economy. In none of the economic models serving as national guidelines is there a variable to account for nonmarketable usevalues any more than there is a variable for nature's perennial contribution. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent dropout, to allow one's children to play in an environment where they listen to people rather than to stars, speakers, or instructors. All over the world, one can see the rapid encroachment of the disciplined acquiescence that characterizes the audience, the client, the customer. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by nouns which name packages designed for passive consumption only 'to learn' becomes 'to accumulate credits'. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ Schools are even less efficient in the arrangement of the circumstances which encourage the openended, exploratory use of acquired skills, for which I will reserve the term "liberal education." The main reason for this is that school is obligatory and becomes schooling for schooling's sake: an enforced stay in the company of teachers, which pays off in the doubtful privilege of more such company. Just as skill instruction must be freed from curricular restraints, so must liberal education be dissociated from obligatory attendance. Both skilllearning and education for inventive and creative behavior can be aided by institutional arrangement, but they are of a different, frequently opposed nature. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ Skill teachers are made scarce by the belief in the value of licenses. Certification constitutes a form of market manipulation and is plausible only to a schooled mind. Most teachers of arts and trades are less skillful, less inventive, and less communicative than the best craftsmen and tradesmen. Most highschool teachers of Spanish or French do not speak the language as correctly as their pupils might after half a year of competent drills. Experimentsconducted by Angel Quintero in Puerto Rico suggest that many young teenagers, if given the proper incentives, programs, and access to tools, are better than most schoolteachers at introducing their peers to the scientific exploration of plants, stars, and matter, and to the discovery of how and why a motor or a radio functions. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ In fact, healthy students often redouble their resistance to teaching as they find themselves more comprehensively manipulated. This resistance is due not to the authoritarian style of a public school or the seductive style of some free schools, but to the fundamental approach common to all schoolsthe idea that one person's judgment should determine what and when another person must learn. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ In a consumer society, there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ Any attempt to reform the university without attending to the system of which it is an integral part is like trying to do urban renewal in New York City from the twelfth story up. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community. ”
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“ Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ In a consumer society, there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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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. ”
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