Deschooling Society (Education)
A second major illusion on which the school system rests is that most learning is the result of teaching. Teaching, it is true, may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances. But most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society
Everywhere the hidden curriculum of schooling initiates the citizen to the myth that bureaucracies guided by scientific knowledge are efficient and benevolent.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can be known only in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
School has become the planned process which tools man for a planned world, the principal tool to trap man in man’s trap.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
The first would be the expansion of the mandate of the pedagogue and his increasing control over society even outside school. With the best of intentions and simply by expanding the rhetoric now used in school, the present crisis in the schools could provide educators with an excuse to use all the networks of contemporary society to funnel their me
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