Political Philosophy · Philosophical Canon
Deschooling Society
Illich argues that compulsory schooling does not chiefly teach subjects; it teaches dependence on institutions, confusing process with substance until people cannot tell being taught from learning. It made him famous and then unfashionable, and it has been rediscovered by every subsequent generation arguing about education. Held complete.
- Period
- 1971
- Region
- Austria
- Language
- English
- Rights
- In copyright, and not ours. The author published it free to read at the address above, which remains the version of record. It is held here as an archival exception — the same allowance the other in-copyright entries carry — because a text that exists on one server maintained by one person is one hosting decision away from being gone. No licence is claimed. If the rights holder asks, the text comes down and the citation stays. Ivan Illich died in 2002, so the term runs from that date and the monitor can watch it; it is recorded here as authorDied rather than as a guess at a public-domain year, because the year the term expires depends on the jurisdiction and on when the work was first published.
- Source
- https://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1970_deschooling.html
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