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  • Paperback: 150 pages
  • Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd (July 1, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0714508799
  • ISBN-13: 978-0714508795
  • Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #213,200 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Deschooling blasts the contemporary idolatry of "education", July 20, 1999
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This is a heartfelt series of essays that illuminate the nature of learning and the perverse consequences of professionally imposed schooling requirements. Far from the assumed engine of equality, modern schooling promotes inequality and social stratification. It's powerful and graded liturgy convinces the majority of people that their inferior status derives from a failure to consume sufficient quantities of expensive educational services. Illich links schooling and modern ideas of education to the belief in endless progress and the ultimate abolition of "Necessity." What starts out as a program in humanism ends up as a formula for the destruction of what it is to be human.

This is a book about aliveness.

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5.0 out of 5 stars These 120 pages will alter your perceptions, June 29, 2000
By "-nicole-" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
I read this book 10 years ago and still find myself thinking about it.

If you're looking for material that will justify your worst suspicions as to the actual effectiveness of modern schooling while inspiring in you a desire for change, you're on the right track. But be warned. This book is far more than an essay on the failings of our educational system.

Education is merely the author's proving ground for one simple premise: it is the nature of the institution to produce the opposite of itself. This basic paradigm may be applied to any institutionalized need. You'll find yourself analyzing the role of healthcare in well-being, financial services in prosperity, the food industry in nutrition, and so on...

Find this book and buy it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Deschool Your Mind., April 10, 2000
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This is one of those books that will change the way you see the world and yourself. It's difficult for us who were "successful" in government schools to look back at the process objectively, to remember the wasted time, the cartoonish simplification of everything, and the process' lack of applicability to our lives. You may need this book to help you reconsider that which has become so large a part of your own feeling of self-worth. You will then see why it is almost impossible to discuss true school reform with people - they still have their blinders on.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Deschooling Society
Often cited but rarely read, its contents are as penetrating as its title! Illich argues, without faltering, that a schooled society is one in which its young people are alienated... Read more
Published 1 day ago by Peter W. Stanfield

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book on the failings of institutionalized learning.
I read this book a few years ago, and still reread it from time to time. Illich does a great job of discussing how the whole concept of an institutionalized school doesn't work... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Deschooling Society
Years ago I read Deschooling Society, by social critic Ivan Illich (San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, c. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Keep the radical alive!
I just found out about this a couple of weeks ago, and it fits my anarchist/indigenous outlook perfectly. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Brilliant Founding Book of the Homeschooling Movement
This book is on my list of "The Ten Best." It does more than brilliantly advocate a turn away from education as an institutional product. Read more
Published on June 17, 2007 by R. Schultz

4.0 out of 5 stars "The Observer" was correct - This book is "Good radical stuff"
Ivan Illich, author of "Deschooling Society," presents a fairly radical view of education overhaul. I do not necessarily agree with all of his ideas, but I do support the... Read more
Published on November 14, 2005 by J. Stoner

3.0 out of 5 stars Sound basis, silly conclusions
Based on a few real insights on the problems with the educational system (the value of "progress" through grades instead of the value of learning), Illich takes his... Read more
Published on July 25, 2004 by Adam Stevenson

5.0 out of 5 stars Not necessary, but should still be a 'valid' way to learn
I don't totally agree that we should get rid of schools completely, but what Illich recommends should be a 'valid' way to learn. Read more
Published on May 27, 2004 by another reader

3.0 out of 5 stars All over the map
In a nutshell, Illich advocates voucher systems, apprenticeships, electronic meeting services, immersion learning, coops, tutors, child labor, mechanical donkeys, vocational... Read more
Published on October 3, 2003 by K. Collins

5.0 out of 5 stars Deschooling Society by Creating Learning Communites.
Illich's goal was society not schools. He saw schools as perpetuating the status quo. This, and his other books, promotied living a convivial life. Read more
Published on March 3, 2003

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