Monday, June 05, 2006

An Educational Proposal

PaddyWop

All this talk about freedom and revolution caused me to go and dig up the following idea for an educational system proposed by Ivan Illich.....

"A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and finally, furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known. Such a system would require the application of constitutional guarantees to education. Learners should not be forced to submit to an obligatory curriculum, or to discrimination based on whether they possess a certificate or a diploma. Nor should the public be forced to support, through regressive taxation, a huge professional apparatus of educators and buildings which in fact restricts the public's chances for learning to the services the profession is willing to put on the market. It should use modern technology to make free speech, free assembly, and a free press truly universal and, therefore, fully educational"

You sure don't need brick and mortor for this......or authority!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Very pretty design! Keep up the good work. Thanks.
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