Ivan Illich

I was recently told, ‘You’re a liar!’ when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can’t walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there. Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you’re a flame in the dark. Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them. School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.