Ivan Illich

Anarchist philosopher, critic of the industrial society, ex-Roman Catholic priest, radical theorist, author of Deschooling Society.

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Creative, exploratory learning requires peers currently puzzled about the same terms or problems.

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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

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Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting.

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“Teaching”: the second oldest profession.

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Educational webs … heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring.

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

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

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Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting.

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The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs.

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“@IvanIllich2: The educational institutions ... are meant to serve a society which does not now exist” So true!

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Obligatory schooling inevitably polarizes a society; it also grades nations of the world according to an international caste system. #PISA

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The institutionalization of values leads inevitably to physical pollution, social polarization, and psychological impotence

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

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

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Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting.

[Ivan Illich @IvanIllich2]

The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs.

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RT @MAwithworkhaton: Guess I'm going to read up on my Illich: http://t.co/3sMMTDj8

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

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An individual is a leader if people follow his initiative and become apprentices in his progressive discoveries.

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The endeavor to put all men through successive stages of enlightenment is rooted deeply in alchemy.