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55 of 55 people found the following review helpful
By David Culp
Format:Hardcover
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.
92 of 97 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
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.
69 of 72 people found the following review helpful
By "-nicole-"
Format:Paperback
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...
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Incredible insight
Illich takes an incredible approach to explaining what is "wrong" with society. I don't agree with all of his points, but this books gives the reader alot to think about. Read more
Published 5 months ago by NJ Man
5.0 out of 5 stars
COLLEGE REQ
GREAT BOOK AND IT WAS A REQ FOR MY COLLEGE CLASS
I WROTE A STORY ABOUT IT AND THE BOOK ITSELF WAS VERY INTERESTING
GOOD PRICE, BETTER THAN COLLEGE BOOK STORES... Read more
I WROTE A STORY ABOUT IT AND THE BOOK ITSELF WAS VERY INTERESTING
GOOD PRICE, BETTER THAN COLLEGE BOOK STORES... Read more
Published 5 months ago by TheGriffin_
5.0 out of 5 stars
Out of print book with great ideas found on amazon
Finding Ivan Illich's book on amazon was a great find. Locating this "treasure" published in 1970 was exciting. Read more
Published 8 months ago by TalkTV
3.0 out of 5 stars
Whatever You Conclude, This Book Makes Us Think about Things Often...
I have a love/hate relationship with Ivan Illich's book "Deschooling Society" (and several other of his works). Read more
Published 18 months ago by Kevin Currie-Knight
2.0 out of 5 stars
Misplaced emphasis
Albeit an interesting read, it fails to search the deeper nature as the author is caught in his own biases and prejudices [of which he seems strangely unaware]. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Michael J. Ryan
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Deschooling Society" Forty years later
Since the initial publication of "Deschooling Society" in 1971 there has been little change to school and centralized institutions, at least in the United States. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Julia Blair
1.0 out of 5 stars
Mindless provocation
A pretty silly book in which the author, who has earned many school degrees himself, argues against the idea that all children should attend school and be taught a more or less... Read more
Published on April 8, 2010 by John Verity
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 on December 10, 2009 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 and... Read more
Published on December 3, 2009 by Wafaa
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. 1970), which represents the position of one on the radical left. Read more
Published on March 26, 2009 by Gerard Reed
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