Deschooling Society
by Ivan Illich
Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of "progress" and development fostered by the belief that ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are proper yardsticks for measuring the quality of human life. Our universities have become recruiting centres for the personnel of the consumer society, certifying citizens for service, while at the same time disposing of those adjudged unfit for the competitive rat race. In this bold and provocative book, Illich suggests some radical and exciting reforms for the education system. The measures suggested in Deschooling Society, he argues, aare necessary to turn civilization from its headlong rush towards the violence which frustrated expectations will certainly unleash so long as the school myth is allowed to persist.
"His assault on the school...demands to be considered seriously...Illich complains that schooling is discriminatory, socially divisive and profoundly inegalitarian."
-Peter Jenkins, The Guardian
"He seduces, cajoles and electrifies the imagination."
-Catholic Herald
"Ivan Illich is a famous and savage critic of industrial society. I am totally in agreement with many of (his) wider arguments."
-Times Educational Supplement
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