School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
Ivan IllichLosses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.
Ivan IllichCulture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
Ivan IllichSchool prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.
Ivan IllichLatin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.
Ivan Illich