Ivan Illich on Learning

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. --Ivan Illich — Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. –Ivan Illich

I came upon the quote by Ivan Illich “Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting” and that statement spurred me to look up more information about the man. He is an interesting thinker. While it is safe to say I don’t agree with him in every way, his critiques of both schooling and medicine in the 1970s have been prophetic of problems only now beginning to gain more widespread mainstream attention.

A few links:

Some excerpts: http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Illich.html
Quotes: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich
Book Overviews: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich#Deschooling_Society

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