Ivan Illich Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Discovery, Self, Care

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• The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.

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  School, Important, Taught

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• Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.

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  Country, School, Rich Countries

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• The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

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  Animal, Men, Cycling

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• Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.

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  Get Well, Healing, Home

  Medical Nemesis

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• Leadership does not depend on being right.

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  Leadership, Doe, Depends

  "The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays".

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• We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.

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  School, Matter, Firsts

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

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  Order, People, Want

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• The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.

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  Sacrifice, Medicine, Toil

  Ivan Illich (1982). “Medical nemesis: the expropriation of health”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death

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  Life, Disease, Want

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

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  People, Needs, Tools

  "Tools for Conviviality" by Ivan Illich, (p. 10), 1973.

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• The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.

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  Balance, Progressive, Ends

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• In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems in a ritually defined setting. The most radical alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same concern.

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  Motivation, School, Opportunity

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

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• We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. We must break the obsolete social and economic systems that divide the world between the over-privileged and the under-privileged. Each of us, whether government leader or protester, business executive or worker, professor or student, share a common guilt.

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  Thinking, Government, Leader

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• Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.

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  People, Political, Narcissistic

  Ivan Illich (1992). “In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses, 1978-1990”, Marion Boyars

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• It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

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  Believe, Teaching, Results

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• Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

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  Learning, Reality, Information

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• Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life.

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  Attitude, Health, Essentials

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

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  School, Men, Historical

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• 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.

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  Kindness, Skills, People

  Ivan Illich (1972). “Institutional inversion”

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• To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.

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  Ignorant, Desire, Needs

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• The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

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  Technology, Choices, Support

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• 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.

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  Hands, Choices, Style

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• Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.

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  Meaningful, Men, Circles

  Ivan Illich, Lionel Rubinoff (1971). “Tradition and Revolution”, Macmillan of Canada ; New York : St. Martin's Press

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

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  Prayer, Distance, Men

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The church, change, and development”

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