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В сталевих грозах

by Ernst Jünger

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May 16, 2026 01:21AM

“School appropriates the money, men, and good will available for education and in addition discourages other institutions from assuming educational tasks. Work, leisure, politics, city living, and even family life depend on schools for the habits and knowledge they presuppose, instead of becoming themselves the means of education.”
― Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

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“Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction.”
― Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

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“Experiences like these led him to believe that the fundamental problem with marketing was its reliance on the past. It looked backward, not forward, and failed to take into account innovation, trends, or cultural shifts in taste.”
― Blake J. Harris, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation — A Business Story of Sega and Nintendo

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“How harmful overspecialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding.”
― Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation

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“The right of free assembly has been politically recognized and culturally accepted. We should now understand that this right is curtailed by laws that make some forms of assembly obligatory. This is especially the case with institutions which conscript according to age group, class, or sex, and which are very time-consuming. The army is one example. School is an even more outrageous one.”
― Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

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