
Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)

Everywhere this same curriculum instills in the pupil the myth that increased production will provide a better life.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Most of these resources are plentiful. But they are neither conventionally perceived as educational resources, nor is access to them for learning…
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Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Educational resources are usually labeled according to educators’ curricular goals. I propose to do the contrary, to label four different approaches which enable the student to gain access to any educational resource…
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Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Since there is nothing desirable which has not been planned, the city child soon concludes that we will always be able to design an institution for our every want. He takes for granted the power of process to create value.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
with which to acquire fundamental skills. Beyond that minimum, further credits would go to those who earned them by teaching, whether they served as models in organized skill centers or did so privately at home or on the playground. Only those who had taught others for an equivalent amount of time would have a claim on the time of more advanced tea
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Today’s educational administrators are concerned with controlling teachers and students to the satisfaction of others—trustees, legislatures, and corporate executives. Network builders and administrators would have to demonstrate genius at keeping themselves, and others, out of people’s way, at facilitating encounters among students, skill models,
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Children born into the age of plastics and efficiency experts must penetrate two barriers which obstruct their understanding: one built into things and the other around institutions. Industrial design creates a world of things that resist insight into their nature, and schools shut the learner out of the world of things in their meaningful setting.
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Life today in New York produces a very peculiar vision of what is and what can be, and without this vision life in New York is impossible. A child on the streets of New York never touches anything which has not been scientifically developed, engineered, planned, and sold to someone. Even the trees are there because the Parks Department decided to p
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- Peer-Matching—a communications network which permits persons to describe the learning activity in which they wish to engage, in the hope…
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