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Special tax incentives could be granted to those who employed children between the ages of eight and fourteen for a couple of hours each day if the conditions of employment were humane ones. We should return to the tradition of the bar mitzvah or confirmation. By this I mean we should first restrict, and later eliminate, the disenfranchisement of t
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Overpopulation, excessive affluence, and faulty technology are usually identified as the three trends which combine and threaten to break the environmental balance.
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
- Reference Services to Educational Objects—which facilitate access to things or processes used for formal learning. Some of these things can be reserved for this purpose, stored in libraries, rental agencies, laboratories, and showrooms like museums and theaters; others can be in daily use in factories,…
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Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Surrounded by all-powerful tools, man is reduced to a tool of his tools.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
That motor traffic curtails the right to walk, not that more people drive Chevies than Fords, constitutes radical monopoly.
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
It should use modern technology to make free speech, free assembly, and a free press truly universal and, therefore, fully educational.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
I have described three types of institutional arrangements within which tools can be used. Certain tools can be used effectively within only one of these arrangements. There are tools which can be used normally for fully satisfying, imaginative, and independent work; others tend to be used primarily in activities best labeled as labor; and, finally
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School has become the planned process which tools man for a planned world, the principal tool to trap man in man’s trap.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Any questioning or discrediting of what is currently the most efficient means of producing acquiescence and docility, of promoting self-interest as the raison d’être of all social activity, is rigorously marginalized.