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Ivan Illich Deschooling Society Summary

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As an educator, Ivan Illich is considered as intelligent and drawn out with different thoughts and criticisms about school system. The book entitled ‘Deschooling society’ which was written around 1970 has been considered as a critical period with a radical rise of capitalists’ society and its institutions. One of the main institutions was school. Ivan Illich sees schooling as only an institution which is compulsory, packaged, very institutionalized and impoverished the society through its control system and inequality supervision towards the schooled society. Illich began his initial discussion by underlining the reasons a must to disestablish school. His imagination was that the establishment of school purposely to inculcate certain values to pupils. On the other hand, school as observed by Illich has led to the disempowerment of society since it forms a packaged system under the direction of the technocrats delivered to the pupils who are regarded as ‘consumers’. The consumer pupils are provided with well training through its learning process as guided by the teachers. When define about the phenomenology of school, Illich sees that school is not only about learning but more than that. Other roles of school are for socialisation, attendance to be enforced to pupils, and aged-specific. Whereas, teachers are not merely to educate pupils but concurrently act as custodian, therapist, and preacher. Referring to the background of Ivan Illich, he was exposed to religious

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