To Whom it May Concern

This purpose of this blog is to collect occasional thought-provoking passages from books, blogs, and other sources. The blog title is stolen from the epigraph to John Cage's Silence.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Ivan Illich on Irrational Consistencies

From Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society (1971):

"Irrational consistency mesmerizes accomplices who are engaged in mutually expedient and disciplined exploitation. It is the logic generated by bureaucratic behavior. And it becomes the logic of a society which demands that the managers of its educational institutions be held publicly accountable for the behavioral modification they produce in their clients."

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