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Ivan Illich: 4 Sep 1926 - 2 Dec 2002
"Ivan Illich regards traditional education as a manipulative process which succeeds in de-educating a large section of the public at increasing cost. Illich finds that most things are learnt outside school, that most of the things learnt inside school are forgotten, that we are more, not less, willing to learn things when we are adults, that lots of things we want to learn are not found in school books, and that many of the ways in which one thing is currently taught make it more, not less, difficult to learn something else."
(Tom Lovett, Adult education, community development and the working class).
Obituaries:
Independent
Was Ivan Illich an inspired out-of-the-box thinker, or just plain wacky? A wide-ranging writer who was a Catholic priest for 18 years, he was never shy at overturning cherished ideas, rejecting the institutionalism of religion, education, medical care, scientific discovery and economic progress. (10 Dec 2002) Availability update
Guardian
Ivan Illich, who has died of cancer aged 76, was one of the world's great thinkers, a polymath whose output covered vast terrains. He worked in 10 languages; he was a jet-age ascetic with few possessions; he explored Asia and South America on foot; and his obligations to his many collaborators led to a constant criss-crossing of the globe in the last two decades. (9 Dec 2002)
Telegraph
Ivan Illich, the sociologist and former priest who died on Monday aged 76, was a resolute opponent of institutionalisation; his controversial views on education, society, the law, medicine, and over-consumption brought him into conflict with the Roman Catholic Church and "experts" in almost every discipline. (5 Dec 2002)
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Texts available online:
Deschooling society
Energy and equity
Tools for conviviality
Ivan Illich: writings on the web
Commentaries:
Informal Education Ivan Illich - an appreciation
The New Criterion Ivan Illich 1926-2002, by Anthony Daniels
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