ivan illich on education and health

Here's a brief introduction to a very interesting personality:


Ivan Illich: a brief introduction - YouTube
GORDIAN TROELLER: KEIN RESPEKT VOR HEILIGEN KUEHEN - YouTube

This is what he had to say about education:


Scary School Nightmare - YouTube

the institutionalization of education is considered to institutionalize society and conversely that ideas for de-institutionalizing education may be a starting point for a de-institutionalized society.

Deschooling Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is what he had to say about the health 'system':

Medical Nemesis

In his Medical Nemesis, first published in 1975, also known as Limits to Medicine, Illich subjected contemporary Western medicine to detailed attack. He argued that the medicalization in recent decades of so many of life's vicissitudes—birth and death, for example—frequently caused more harm than good and rendered many people in effect lifelong patients. He marshalled a body of statistics to show what he considered the shocking extent of post-operative side-effects and drug-induced illness in advanced industrial society. He introduced to a wider public the notion of iatrogenic disease ^[17] which had been scientifically established a century earlier by British nurse Florence Nightingale (1820–1910). Others have since voiced similar views,^[18] but none so trenchantly, perhaps, as Illich.

Ivan Illich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The medical establishment has become a major threat to health." with this opening assertion, Ivan Illich - one of the most brilliant social critics of our time - launches a devastating analysis into "iatrogenesis" (doctor-made illness), examing what medicine really does, as opposed to the myth that has been built around it. "Medical Nemesis" poses some basic questions not only about the medical profession but about the direction of modern society and its dependence upon a maintainence system that is categorically robbing us of power, money, dignity - even life itself.

Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health: Ivan Illich: 9780394712451: Amazon.com: Books
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