We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.
Ivan IllichThe new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
Ivan IllichEffective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
Ivan IllichSchool prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to grow in independence; they no longer find relatedness attractive, and close themselves off to the surprises which life offers when it is not predetermined by institutional definition.
Ivan Illich