Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)

On the other hand, the growing awareness on the part of governments, as well as of employers, taxpayers, enlightened pedagogues, and school administrators, that graded curricular teaching for certification has become harmful could offer large masses of people an extraordinary opportunity: that of preserving the right of equal access to the tools bo

If the networks I have described could emerge, the educational path of each student would be his own to follow, and only in retrospect would it take on the features of a recognizable program. The wise student would periodically seek professional advice: assistance to set a new goal, insight into difficulties encountered, choice between possible met

Surrounded by all-powerful tools, man is reduced to a tool of his tools.

A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives;

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

A political program which does not explicitly recognize the need for deschooling is not revolutionary; it is demagoguery calling for more of the same.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

We now need a name for those who value hope above expectations. We need a name for those who love people more than products, those who believe that No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicle of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet. We need a name for those who love the earth on which ea

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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