Alternative Stories and Social Change – Ivan Illich
“If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.”
Ivan Illich
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Ivan Illich on School, Knowledge and Confinement
“Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.”
Ivan Illich
Quote About the Past and History by Eduardo Galeano
“If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.”
Eduardo Galeano
Ivan Illich on Learning and Compulsory Schooling
“Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.”
Ivan Illich
H. L. Mencken Quote on Politics and Parties
“Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.”
H. L. Mencken
Quote by H. L. Mencken about Government and Liberty
“All government, of course, is against liberty.”
H. L. Mencken
Ivan Illich on Consumer Society and Schooling
“We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.”
Ivan Illich
Satirical Quote by H. L. Mencken on Political Campaigns
“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.”
H. L. Mencken
Ivan Illich on Medicalization and the Lifelong Patient
“The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.”
Ivan Illich
Health and Mental Attitude – Quote by Ivan Illich
“Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life.”
Ivan Illich