The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.

Ivan Illich
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  1. 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.

  2. School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

  3. School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

  4. We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by nouns which name packages designed for passive consumption only -- 'to learn' becomes 'to accumulate credits'.

  5. Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment where they listen to people rather than to stars, speakers, or instructors. All over the world, one can see the rapid...

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