Deschooling Society (1971)
We live in a Schooled Society
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library,” goes an apocryphal Frank Zappa quote. Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society is an expansion of this idea in 186 pages, a polemic against formal education and a celebration of organic knowledge.1 A renounced Austrian priest, Illich was widely read until an impolitic book ab…
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