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| − | | | + | |title=Deschooling Society |
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|author=Ivan Illich | |author=Ivan Illich | ||
|published=1971 | |published=1971 | ||
| − | |description= | + | |description=Ivan Illich begins this, his most well known and celebrated book, as follows: |
| − | "Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby "schooled" to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is "schooled" to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavor are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question." | + | {{quotation|"Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby "schooled" to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is "schooled" to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavor are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question."}} |
| − | + | It focuses on schooling but applies equally to other modern social institutions. It is a far reaching and insightful critique into the perils of institutionalization and professionalization, and suggests ways to resist their dehumanizing thrall. | |
| + | #Why We Must Disestablish School | ||
| + | #Phenomenology of School | ||
| + | #Ritualization of Progress | ||
| + | #Institutional Spectrum | ||
| + | #Irrational Consistencies | ||
| + | #Learning Webs | ||
| + | #Rebirth of Epimethean Man | ||
|read=Read by [[Robin Upton]] and [[Tereza Corragio]] from episode [[562]] | |read=Read by [[Robin Upton]] and [[Tereza Corragio]] from episode [[562]] | ||
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Deschooling Society, by Ivan Illich (1971)
Read by Robin Upton and Tereza Corragio from episode 562 List of Episodes
Ivan Illich begins this, his most well known and celebrated book, as follows:
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It focuses on schooling but applies equally to other modern social institutions. It is a far reaching and insightful critique into the perils of institutionalization and professionalization, and suggests ways to resist their dehumanizing thrall.
- Why We Must Disestablish School
- Phenomenology of School
- Ritualization of Progress
- Institutional Spectrum
- Irrational Consistencies
- Learning Webs
- Rebirth of Epimethean Man
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