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Ivan Illich Quotes: School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
         

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.


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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.



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