Bell rings

Class is NOT in session, yet we are still learning, still being schooled. The time to end school is now.

Welcome to deschooling. Ah, what is deschooling? Well to speak about deschooling, let's first clarify what it means to be schooled:

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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.

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Deschooling society by Ivan Illich. Year is nineteen seventy-one. This quote is found in chapter one, page one, paragraph one.

If this is schooled, then deschooling not only unravels the dominant machine of school but also clarifies the aims of learning. We offer some tools from the decentralized stoop. We aim to give adequate supplies for beyond the inadequate schooling. That conclude this "commercial break"

To be continued...