School appropriates the money, men, and good will available for education and in addition discourages other institutions from assuming educational ta… - Ivan Illich

The prestige of a puny national team in the medical Olympics is used to intensify a nationwide addiction to therapeutic relationships that are pathogenic on a level much deeper than mere medical vandalism. More health damage is caused by people's belief that they cannot cope with their illness unless they call on the doctor than doctors could ever cause by foisting their ministrations on people.

Through intravenous feeding, blood transfusions, and surgical techniques, more of those who get to the hospital survive trauma, but survival rates for the most common types of cancer — those which make up 90 percent of the cases — have remained virtually unchanged over the last twenty-five years.

our pedagogical hubris: that is, “our belief that man can do what God cannot, namely, manipulate others for their own salvation.