Quote by Rudolf Virchow on Prophylaxis and Palliation
“My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.”
Rudolf Virchow
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Ivan Illich on School and Self-Directed Learning
“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
Umberto Eco on Allusion, Spirit and the Heart
“Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.”
Umberto Eco