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Certains de nos penseurs les plus brillants, William Godwin, Proudhon, Kropotkine, Oscar Wilde, Tolstoï, Gandhi étaient anarchistes. Tous avaient vu les faiblesses de grands gouvernements centralisés et se mirent à imaginer des alternatives basées sur la liberté individuelle et un système fédéral d’autogouvernement.
Tom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être libre: Dans un monde absurde (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)
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
... See moreIvan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Crucial to how much anyone can learn on his own is the structure of his tools: the less they are convivial, the more they foster teaching.
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
It must now be explained why most people are either blind to this threat or feel helpless to correct it.
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
By radical monopoly I mean a kind of dominance by one product that goes far beyond what the concept of monopoly usually implies.
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
have shown that social polarization is the result of two complementary factors: the excessive cost of industrially produced and advertised products, and the excessive rarity of jobs that are considered highly productive. Obsolescence, on the other hand, produces devaluation–which is the result not of a certain general rate of change but of change i
... See moreIvan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives;
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Multiple limits to overefficiency must be expressed in language that is simple and politically effective.
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
Thomas Aquinas says of this kind of teaching that inevitably it is an act of love and mercy. This kind of teaching is always a luxury for the teacher and a form of leisure (in Greek, “schole”) for him and his pupil: an activity meaningful for both, having no ulterior purpose.