Deschooling Society
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Deschooling Society
| Author | Ivan Illich |
|---|---|
| Published | 1971 |
| Pages | 116 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Illich’s 1971 root text of the argument that institutional schooling displaces learning rather than delivering it — the book every later deschooling argument is downstream of, and the one that named the mechanism. |
Where I heard about it
- A March 2026 post — placing Illich at the head of the deschooling lineage, alongside John Holt (before him) and John Taylor Gatto (after), and summarising the claim as “schooling had become a substitute for learning… the institution had replaced the activity.” Its case for reading Illich now: he was not wrong, only early — the resources his model required did not exist in 1971 and do now.
Connections
- Homeschooling — the practice; this is its intellectual root.
- John Taylor Gatto — the later figure in the same lineage, already in the corpus.
- Alternative Education.
What links here
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