School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
Ivan IllichThe new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
Ivan IllichI believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships.
Ivan Illich