The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.
Ivan IllichThe future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.
Ivan IllichMost learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.
Ivan IllichExporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.
Ivan Illich