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.

It should use modern technology to make free speech, free assembly, and a free press truly universal and, therefore, fully educational.

Everywhere this same curriculum instills in the pupil the myth that increased production will provide a better life.

Thomas Aquinas says of this kind of teaching that inevitably it is an act of love and mercy. This kind of teaching is always a luxury for the teacher and a form of leisure (in Greek, “schole”) for him and his pupil: an activity meaningful for both, having no ulterior purpose.

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A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives;

and, finally, furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.

Invariably, it

I believe that no more than four—possibly even three—distinct “channels” or learning exchanges could contain all the resources needed for real learning. The child grows up in a world of things, surrounded by people who serve as models for skills and values. He finds peers who challenge him to argue, to compete, to cooperate, and to understand; and