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consciousness. Some would like to speak about a mutation of collective consciousness which leads to a conception of man as an organism dependent not on nature and individuals, but rather on institutions. This institutionalization of substantive values, this belief that a planned process of treatment ultimately gives results desired by the recipient
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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;
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Special tax incentives could be granted to those who employed children between the ages of eight and fourteen for a couple of hours each day if the conditions of employment were humane ones. We should return to the tradition of the bar mitzvah or confirmation. By this I mean we should first restrict, and later eliminate, the disenfranchisement of t
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Invariably, it
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School does offer children an opportunity to escape their homes and meet new friends. But, at the same time, this process indoctrinates children with the idea that they should select their friends from among those with whom they are put together. Providing the young from their earliest age with invitations to meet, evaluate, and seek out others wou
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Such a system would require the application of constitutional guarantees to education.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
The inverse of school would be an institution which increased the chances that persons who at a given moment shared the same specific interest could meet—no matter what else they had in common.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
- Skill Exchanges—which permit persons to list their skills, the conditions under which they are willing to serve as models for others who want to learn these skills, and…
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Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
and, finally, furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.