Ivan Illich

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

— Ivan Illich

#homeschool #homeschooling #education

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

#deschooling-society #education #ivan-illich #pedagogic-philosophy #pedagogy

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

#sociology

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

— Ivan Illich

#currently #depends #discovery #effective #fact

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#distinction #expectation #hope #must #rediscover

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

#heals #health #human #human health #institution

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

— Ivan Illich

#church #established #public #public school #school

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#distance #god #greater #man #prayer

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#death #i #moment #surprised

Leadership does not depend on being right. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#depend #does #leadership #right