Creative Quotations from . . .
Ivan Illich
(1926-2002) born on
Austrian-born US writer. He is best known for his writings on sociology and theology in "Celebration of Awareness," 1969.
         
   
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F
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere. . .

R
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
A
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.
N
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly. . .
K
Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: Celebration of Awareness, ch. 8 (1969).
R: "Celebration of Awareness," ch. 4 (1969).
A: In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
N: Celebration of Awareness, ch. 4 (1969).
K: Deschooling Society," Ch. 4
 

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