In the Mirror of the Past - Lectures and Addresses 1978-1990 - Ivan Illich

In the Mirror of the Past - Lectures and Addresses 1978-1990 - Ivan Illich

The History of Homo Educandus

In the Mirror of the Past - Lectures and Addresses 1978-1990 - Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich [+-]
Ivan Illich was born in Vienna to a Croatian father and Sephardic-Jewish mother, and had as native languages Italian, French and German. He later learnt Serbo-Croatian, the language of his grand-fathers, then Ancient Greek and Latin, as well as Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi. Thereafter, he studied histology and crystallography at the University of Florence (Italy), theology and philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in the Vatican (1942-1946) and medieval history in Salzburg. He is the author of Tools for Conviviality, The Right to Useful Unemployment, Energy and Equity, Limits to Medicine, Shadow Work, Gender, H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness, ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind, Deschooling Society and In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses 1978-1990. Illich lived much of his life in Mexico and the United States, he died in 2002.

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Opening speech at the plenum of the 5th World Congress of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, Sorbonne, Paris, July 1984

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Illich, Ivan. The History of Homo Educandus. In the Mirror of the Past - Lectures and Addresses 1978-1990. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. Jan 1992. ISBN 9780714531595. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=45631. Date accessed: 11 Nov 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.45631. Jan 1992

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