Word: illich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ivan Illich, founder of the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC), a radical learning center in Cuernavaca, Mexico, called last night for the de-schooling" and deprofessionalization of society...
...Illich was the main speaker at a forum sponsored by the Center for International Affairs and held in a crowded Mallinckrodt lecture hall last night...
...Illich criticized current proposals for reforming the educational system in the U. S., charging that they leave the system's key faults intact...
...Gradually the idea grew that schooling was a necessary means of becoming a useful member of society," Ivan Illich writes in Celebration of Awareness. "It is the task of this generation to bury that myth." While the myth is still prevalent we allow schools to treat children like punch cards to be stamped with information ever more thoroughly and quickly so they can become increasingly more useful people. A child's progress is directioned, rationed, and judged in accordance with average achievements for his grade level. It is possible that some children do not want to read...
There is material more to the author's liking in the chapter on the new Catholicism of Cuernavaca, particularly as personified in Ivan Illich, the impresario of the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC). A dispossessed Dalmatian nobleman with a brilliant and unlikely career in the arch diocese of New York behind him, Illich set up the school to "de-Yankee" the building-fund-oriented American priests who were unprepared to serve in trackless poverty zones of Latin America. His radical ideas, particularly about education, alarmed the Vatican enough to cut off the flow of priest-students; finally, after...