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Unfortunately, Ivan Illich's latest work has been published during such an ebb of American public interest in energy and its relation to food. But, in view of the massive famine this nation will soon witness in living color, Illich's book could not be more timely. He contends that high energy consumption in a world of limited resources necessarily decreases equity and degrades social relations on a global scale. The book is a devastating attack on the developed countries' heedless and gluttonous abuse of the world's energy supplies and a primer for undeveloped nations with similarly reckless ambitions...
...most of the present-day prophets disappoint Thompson. Architect Paolo Soleri, with his beehive city projects aimed at accommodating architecture with ecology, and Educator Ivan Illich, with his hope of "deschooling" society, turn out to be looking backward. Reacting to a world too full of growth, they strive to return to simpler, medieval values. (Nevertheless, both Illich and Soleri represent something Thompson admires: the achievement of authority unaccompanied by institutional power.) The Club of Rome, on the other hand, looks forward to a world of no growth. But Thompson dismisses its recommendations too because he distrusts rule by any "technocratic...
...editors refuse to blame the debacle on the magazines themselves. "Editorial quality had nothing to do with this equation," Kriss maintains. Within the limits imposed by the four separate topics, the editors did attract some offbeat, incisive articles; they gave specialists like Sociologist Daniel Bell and Education Reformer Ivan Illich access to a large readership. SR's graphics improved mightily, and each magazine boasted a strong review section. Still, the clear new identity sought for each of the monthlies never took shape...
...deschoolers' ideas have been tried out for two years in Evanston, Ill., by two doctoral dropouts from Northwestern, Bob Lewis and Denis Detzel, who also studied with Ivan Illich. In two years their Learning Exchange has put 6,000 students in touch with informal teachers of such subjects as German classics, Camus, African music, Hinduism and auto mechanics. Fourteen more exchanges modeled after Evanston's have since sprung up in the U.S., as well as two abroad...
...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...