Word: illich
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enterprising student who started a window-washing business at age 14 and never finished college, Hollender was fascinated by the notion of a "skills exchange," suggested in Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society. He put the radical education idea into practice in Toronto in 1977; that nonprofit institution now has 30,000 students a year. Then in 1979 he rounded up $60,000 and opened for business in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. From an initial enrollment of 400 in its first month, Network has grown to 4,000 students a month so far this year...