Ivan Illich Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• 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

  School, World Religions, Promise

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

• 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.

  Ivan Illich

  Dark, Drug, Suffering

• I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria which may help us distinguish institutions which merit development because they support learning in a deschooled milieu; and to clarify those personal goals which would foster the advent of an Age of Leisure (schole) as opposed to an economy dominated by service industries.

  Ivan Illich

  Issues, Goal, Support

  "Deschooling Society". Book by Ivan Illich, 1971.

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