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Philosopher

Ivan Illich, born on September 4, 1926 and died on December 2, 2002, was a renowned philosopher. His research focused on the fields of education, technology, and social criticism, reflecting deeply on modern society.

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Famous Ivan Illich Quotes

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

People Needs Tools

Author:Ivan Illich

“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.”

Needs Desire Social Citizens Capitalism Conviction Ignorant Alternatives Renunciation Good Citizen Unforgivable Anti Social

Author:Ivan Illich

“Schools teach the need to be taught.”

Needs School Teach Taught

Author:Ivan Illich

“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.”

People Needs Giving Humans Home Dies Growth Healing Environment Share Conditions Dying Health Birth Fit Healthy Diets Mates Human Condition Interference Get Well Healthy Diet

Author:Ivan Illich

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

Needs Believe School Education Learning Historical Educational Advertising Agency Schooling Self Education Schooled Homeschooling Advertising Agencies Unschooling Schools And Education School Education Education And Freedom

Author:Ivan Illich

“School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.”

Needs School Learning Teaching Taught Unschooling

Book:The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

Source: The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

“School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to grow in independence; they no longer find relatedness attractive, and close themselves off to the surprises which life offers when it is not predetermined by institutional definition.”

People Needs School Grows Loses Teaching Taught Lessons Offers Independence Surprise Definitions Attractive Incentives Predetermined

Author:Ivan Illich

About the Author

Born: September 4, 1926
Died: December 2, 2002
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 103

Books & Sources

Deschooling SocietyRelated source material

The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other EssaysRelated source material

The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional EnemiesRelated source material

Energy and EquityRelated source material

Limits to medicineRelated source material

Tradition and RevolutionRelated source material

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Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of HealthRelated source material

The church, change, and developmentRelated source material

In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses, 1978-1990Related source material

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