Tuesday, January 27, 2015

How to “educate” to authoritarianism

“Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can be known only in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags.”

 (Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society)

http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/DESCHOOLING.pdf