Word: illich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minister of Education who now serves as Minister of Social Affairs, the members spent 14 months and $400,000 analyzing education throughout the world. They visited 23 countries, interviewed scores of educators and solicited 81 special reports from such experts as Gunnar Myrdal, Jean Piaget, Paulo Freire and Ivan Illich...
...architect working with student apprentices in Arizona on schemes to redesign cities. Jean Piaget: eminent Swiss child psychologist. Gopi Krishna: Indian philosopher who has written about the evolution of man toward a new state of consciousness. The Lama Foundation: a commune devoted to the study of Eastern mysticism. *Ivan Illich: brilliant priest who believes in deschooling society but founded a school of his own in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Jacques Ellul: French historian and lay theologian of a Calvinist persuasion...
Unlike Educational Iconoclast Ivan Illich, Holt does not want schools abolished entirely, but he thinks they should be de-emphasized. Last year education costs totaled about $80 billion; yet to give all young people the quality of schooling now available only to the upper 20%-which is what is meant by talk of "equal educational opportunity" -might cost three times as much, almost one-quarter of the gross national product. "We now spend 8% and there are many signs that this is about the limit of what people are willing to pay," Holt writes. "Yet this...
...believes that all education--from first grade up--should be divorced from state financing and control. "Public schooling, like most public services, is generally lousy," Wright said. "And people like John Holt and Ivan Illich are even getting liberals to realize that public schools have made our society too diploma-oriented. By ending the near state-monopoly on schooling and abolishing compulsory education laws, learning would have a chance to become more efficient and fulfilling...
...underdevelopment that Freire attacks through his pedagogy is present in all nations; the illiteracy of the understanding of our fellow men and women and underdevelopment of our humanity and our capacity to love. A few social thinkers already have been profoundly influenced by Paolo Freire's ideas. Ivan Illich, another educator working in Latin America, speaks of Freire as "the great man of Latin America": Illich's call to dismantle out entire present educational structure may be the direction Freire himself would move in if he became involved in children's education rather than the adult education he based...