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Ivan Illich


Born
in Vienna, Austria
September 04, 1926

Died
December 02, 2002

Website

Genre
Nonfiction, Philosophy, Social Sciences

Influences
Jacques Ellul, Arnold Toynbee, Everett Reimer, Jacques Maritain, Leopo ...more


Ivan Illich was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture and their effects of the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, and economic development.

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Average rating: 3.99 · 6,643 ratings · 789 reviews · 108 distinct works • Similar authors
Deschooling Society
3.98 avg rating — 3,488 ratings — published 1971 — 13 editions
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Tools for Conviviality
3.99 avg rating — 961 ratings — published 1973 — 32 editions
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Limits to Medicine: Medical...
4.04 avg rating — 599 ratings — published 1974 — 55 editions
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Energy and Equity
3.99 avg rating — 367 ratings — published 1973 — 27 editions
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The Right to Useful Unemplo...
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1978 — 17 editions
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In the Vineyard of the Text...
4.29 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 1991 — 17 editions
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Gender
3.88 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1982 — 25 editions
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Disabling Professions
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4.13 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1977 — 11 editions
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H2O and the Waters of Forge...
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Celebration of Awareness: A...
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“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”
― Ivan Illich
tags: education, homeschool, homeschooling
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“Most 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 Illich, Deschooling Society
tags: education, experience, learning, teaching
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“School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.”
― Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
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