To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol. Ivan Illich More Quotes by Ivan Illich More Quotes From Ivan Illich Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen. Ivan Illich information learning reality Leadership does not depend on being right. Ivan Illich depends leadership doe 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. Ivan Illich government leader thinking I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death Ivan Illich disease want life School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Ivan Illich learning teaching school At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. Ivan Illich moments The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies. Ivan Illich support technology choices Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active. Ivan Illich kicking-it turkeys numbers The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. Ivan Illich advancement learning teaching Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them. Ivan Illich economic-inequality use men 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 drug suffering dark The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place. Ivan Illich household consumption wages There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God Ivan Illich distance prayer men People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them. Ivan Illich tools people needs I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships. Ivan Illich technology self believe The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always and everywhere imply more privileges for a few... Underdevelopment is the result of a state of mind common to both socialist and capitalist countries. Present development goals are neither desirable nor reasonable. Unfortunately antiimperialism is no antidote. Ivan Illich goal mind country The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective - defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined... and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people. Ivan Illich government decision people Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home. Ivan Illich latin home school The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education. Ivan Illich establishment states law Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. Ivan Illich kind satisfaction loss
