School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan IllichI believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows to make and unmake, produce and consume - a style of life which is merely a way station on the road to the depletion and pollution of the environment. The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.
Ivan IllichLosses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.
Ivan Illich