From Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society" (written in 1970): "In these essays, I will show that the institutionalization of values leads inevitably to physical p

From Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society" (written in 1970): "In these essays, I will show that the institutionalization of values leads inevitably to physical pollution, social polarization, and psychological impotence: three dimensions in a process of global degradation and modernized misery. I will explain how this process of degradation is accelerated when nonmaterial needs are transformed into demands for commodities; when health, education, personal mobility, welfare, or psychological healing are defined as the result of services or "treatments"."