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Against school - New Statesman

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The 20th-century social critic Ivan Illich’s radical, egalitarian model of learning has never been more relevant to today's hyper-commoditised education system.

Illustration by Otto Dettmer / Ikon Images In early 1971, after years of desperate boredom, chronic frustration and random acts of rebellion, I was expelled from my working-class Catholic comprehensive school in Corby, Northants. I was 16. A few months later, Calder & Boyars published Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society, a radical critique of how obligatory schooling perpetuates power elites all over the world. The book was both timely and prophetic, foreshadowing a for-profit corporatisation of schooling that has only increased in the intervening years, and highlighting inequities that are all

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