[seul-edu] Ivan Illich tangent

[Michael Hall <admin@openlearningcommunity.org>]

David, don't get me wrong, I'm not an advocate of kids sitting by
themselves in
front of computer monitors all day. Even taking Deschooling to an extreme,
I would still see education as very much as a social activity, just
organised differently. I would see education involving much more active
engagement with the world than most schools currently allow. Actually, I'm
happy with the idea of primary schools to a point. But I don't see why it
takes 13 years to teach literacy and numeracy. All subject content is
really just a form of literacy in the end.

Illich's Deschooling Society is on the web at a couple of places, this is
one of them:

http://philosophy.la.psu.edu/illich/deschool/intro.html

Any way, let's get back to the tasks at hand because frankly I'm having
trouble keeping up with this thread and where it's going at the moment :-)


Michael

> You're right, though, for home schooling and isolated people, technology may
> be the closest link to warm bodies and "switched on" minds, that some of have.
> I guess, in that case, I see myself in that case as I don't have this type of
> educational conversation in "real" life often.