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In Illich’s view, modern institutions—including, for example, education, transportation, and medicine—had the (possibly unintended) consequence of deskilling the person and generating dependence on professionalized services. “Deskilling” is my word. Illich talked about a loss of competence and autonomy (always, though, in the service of mutual... See more
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Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Just as with proper social arrangements most people would grow up as readers without having to be schooled and without having to recreate the pre-Gutenberg profession of the scribe, so a sufficient number would grow up competent with medical tools. This would make healing so plentiful that it would be difficult to turn this competence into a
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We must conceive of new relational structures which are deliberately set up to facilitate access to these resources for the use of anybody who is…
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Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
leaders, and educational objects.