Ivan Illich
Austrian-American theologist, writer
Lived from: 1926 - 2002
Category: Theologians and clergy | Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
Austria
Born: 4 september 1926 Died: 2 december 2002
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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
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School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
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The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
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The public school has become the established church of secular society.
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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
― Ivan Illich
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