Next to the right to life itself, the most fundamental of all human rights is the right to control our own minds and thoughts. That means, the right to decide for ourselves how we will explore the world around us, think about our own and other persons' experiences, and find and make the meaning of our own lives. He tells us, in effect, that we cannot be trusted even to think, that for all our lives we must depend on others to tell us the meaning of our world and our lives, and that any meaning we may make for ourselves, out of our own experience has no value. Ivan Illich School is an instiution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
The inductivist or Lamarkian approach operates with the idea of instruction from without , or from the environment. In fact, I contend that there is no such thing as instruction from without the stucture , or the passive reception of a flow of information which impresses itself on our sense organs. All observations are theory-impregnated. There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation. We do not discover new facts or new effects by copying them, or by inferring them inductively from observation, or by any other method of instruction by the environment.