10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society"

10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society" | Intellectual Takeout
2) “The paradox of the schools is evident: increased expenditure escalates their destructiveness at home and abroad.”
4) “Skill teachers are made scarce by the belief in the value of licenses… Most teachers of arts and trades are less skillful, less inventive and less communicative than the best craftsmen and tradesmen. Most high-school teachers of Spanish or French do not speak the language as correctly as their pupils might after half a year of competent drills.”
9) “The public is indoctrinated to believe that skills are valuable and reliable only if they are the result of formal schooling.”
10) “School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”