Ivan Illich

NPR | By Jacki Lyden

Published December 4, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Jacki Lyden notes the death of sociologist Ivan Illich at age 76. Illich was a one-time priest who quit out of frustration with the bureaucracy. He became a strong opponent of institutionalized religion and learning, and was perhaps best known for his authorship of Deschooling Society, in 1971.

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