School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

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About Ivan Illich

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Ivan Dominic Illich ( iv-AHN IL-itch; German: [ˈiːvan ˈɪlɪtʃ]; 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that he argued demotivates and alienates individuals from the process...

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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

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The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

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School was a worry to her. She was not glib or quick in a world where glibness and quickness were easily confused with ability to learn.

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I think the world is run by C students.

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The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

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School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come."

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The least of learning is done in the classrooms.

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