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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 inte... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Ill With Want
- To liberate access to things by abolishing the control which persons and institutions now exercise over their educational values.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
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Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
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Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)

- To liberate the sharing of skills by guaranteeing freedom to teach or exercise them on request.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Learners should not be forced to submit to an obligatory curriculum, or to discrimination based on whether they possess a certificate or a diploma. Nor should the public be forced to support, through a regressive taxation, a huge professional apparatus of educators and buildings which in fact restricts the public’s chances for learning to the servi
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