“At the moment of death I hope to be surprised” – Ivan Illich
“At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.”
Ivan Illich
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Ivan Illich on Education and Social Participation
“By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with ‘education.'”
Ivan Illich
Progress in Sciences – Noam Chomsky
“The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.”
Noam Chomsky
Quote by H. L. Mencken about Love for Country
“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.”
H. L. Mencken
“Celebration of the Human Voice” – Quote by Eduardo Galeano
“Celebration of the Human Voice— When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.”
Eduardo Galeano
Ivan Illich on the State and Education
“The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.”
Ivan Illich
The man of knowledge must… – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote on Social Change by Ivan Illich
“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
“To Hell with the Future” – Quote by Ivan Illich
“To hell with the future. It’s a man-eating idol.”
Ivan Illich
“I’ve nothing against schools!” – Quote by Ivan Illich
“I’ve nothing against schools! I’m against compulsory schooling.”
Ivan Illich