Deschooling SocietySchools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of 'progress' and development fostered by the belief that ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are proper yardsticks for measuring the quality of human life. Our universities have become recruiting centers for the personnel of the consumer society, certifying citizens for service, while at the same time disposing of those judged unfit for the competitive rat race. In this bold and provocative book, Illich suggest some radical and exciting reforms for the education system. |
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Page 35
... ability of the university to fix consumer goals is something new . In many countries the university acquired this power only in the sixties , as the delusion of equal access to public education began to spread . Before that the ...
... ability of the university to fix consumer goals is something new . In many countries the university acquired this power only in the sixties , as the delusion of equal access to public education began to spread . Before that the ...
Page 58
... ability universally possessed by those who wish to use the network . Post- age is usually cheap . Use of the postal system is slightly limited by the price of pen and paper , and somewhat more by the ability to write . Still , when ...
... ability universally possessed by those who wish to use the network . Post- age is usually cheap . Use of the postal system is slightly limited by the price of pen and paper , and somewhat more by the ability to write . Still , when ...
Page 100
... ability to take educational initiative on a specific subject would be as wide as access to learning itself . But , of course , there is a vast difference between the initiative taken by someone to call a fruitful meeting to discuss this ...
... ability to take educational initiative on a specific subject would be as wide as access to learning itself . But , of course , there is a vast difference between the initiative taken by someone to call a fruitful meeting to discuss this ...
Contents
Why We Must Disestablish School | 1 |
Phenomenology of School | 25 |
Ritualization of Progress | 34 |
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