086764
London - New York
2004
13×19,5
meki
118
engleski
Cijena: 15,00 EUR
The author argues that compulsory, institutionalized schooling stifles learning by equating education with consumption, fostering dependency, and reinforcing social inequality. Illich advocates for "deschooling"—replacing schools with decentralized "learning webs" or networks that provide free, open access to skills, resources, and peers for self-directed education. Illich argues that schools are manipulative institutions that promote conformity and obedience rather than creativity. He contends that they mistakenly teach that knowledge is a commodity that must be delivered by experts (teachers) rather than acquired through life experience. The book challenges the idea that schools are necessary for learning, arguing that most learning happens outside the classroom. The goal is to remove the state monopoly on education and dismantle the "educational funnel". This allows for a "convivial" society where individuals take charge of their own learning. Ivan Illich (Vienna, 1926 – Bremen, 2002) was a philosopher of Croatian and Jewish origin, a Catholic priest and a critic of the institutions of modern Western culture and their influence on education, medicine, work, energy use and economic development. His father was Croat and his mother was a Viennese Jewess of Spanish origin. He spent his childhood in Vienna, Split and Sutivan. He studied natural sciences, philosophy and theology in Florence, Salzburg and Rome. He earned two doctorates for his education. He became a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of New York. He served as vice-chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico. He later moved to Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he devoted himself to educating missionaries and social workers for work in South America. Due to certain views, he was called to account by the Vatican. After that, he requested secularization and ceased to perform priestly service. In an interview with David Cayley, he stated that "since I left the old ho
