I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows to make and unmake, produce and consume - a style of life which is merely a way station on the road to the depletion and pollution of the environment. The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

- - (Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society. 1973, Penguin, Harmondsworth. Pg. 57)

HT: "ivan illich: deschooling, conviviality and the possibilities for informal education and lifelong learning" @ http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-illic.htm.