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a digital version of Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society ( New York: Harper & Row, 1971), with indicated pagination corresponding to the original publication. Copyright (c) 1970, 1971 by Ivan Illich and Valentine Burremans, has an excellent first chapter. (It was nominated for my best first chapter of 2010, lets see how it does by Decemberage.)
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Deschooling/chap1.html
Honestly, the ideas in here get all the gold stars I can muster. Highlighted lines in my copy:
p.9 "Obligatory schooling inevitably polarizes a society; it also grades the nations of the world according to an international caste system."
p.12 "Most learning happens casually, and even most intentional learning is not the result of programmed instruction. Normal children learn their first language casually, although faster if their parents pay attention to them. Most people who learn a second language well do so as a result of odd circumstances and not of sequential teaching."
all of p.13
p.22 "Incidental education cannot any longer return to the forms which learning took in the village or the medieval town. Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related."
I cant wait for chap2.html to finish downloading!!
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Deschooling/chap1.html
Honestly, the ideas in here get all the gold stars I can muster. Highlighted lines in my copy:
p.9 "Obligatory schooling inevitably polarizes a society; it also grades the nations of the world according to an international caste system."
p.12 "Most learning happens casually, and even most intentional learning is not the result of programmed instruction. Normal children learn their first language casually, although faster if their parents pay attention to them. Most people who learn a second language well do so as a result of odd circumstances and not of sequential teaching."
all of p.13
p.22 "Incidental education cannot any longer return to the forms which learning took in the village or the medieval town. Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related."
I cant wait for chap2.html to finish downloading!!