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Quote image attributed to Ivan Illich about telephone communication and privacy

1. January 2014

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"The telephone lets anybody say what he wants to the person of his choice; he can conduct business, express love, or pick a quarrel. It is impossible for bureaucrats to define what people say to each other on the phone, even though they can interfere with - or protect - the privacy of their exchange." Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich quote about schools, compulsory education, and self-directed learning

1. January 0223

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"Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory - as we see at this moment in the United States - create a dazed population, a 'learned' population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before." Ivan Illich