Before I read Ivan Illich's death I started to write a comment on his contributions and ideas "deschooling society." I have a feeling that many home school, Illich and many fans the message, tried to deliver to lose. Perhaps my interpretation is supported by a number of opportunities I had to talk to him, listen to his lectures and see better with his "journey dice game, which met in various universities around the world. Or it may be that his way of developing an ideawas thought to encourage the public, instead of an idea so obvious that any captured exactly the same message. Now that Ivan has passed I am compelled to make this song a bit 'longer than originally planned.
"Deschooling society" was more about the company than on schools. The company needed deschooling because it is a pantomime of the school system is that it generates, that it was produced. In today's society you work in a trunk andJobs mortifying for future premiums. They are trained to do in schools. They go to school to get a job for prizes for future work.
With deschooling Illich does not mean that education at home, nor meant "free schools", in which a curriculum is set by the students. Schooling of any kind that a person's ability and desire to learn self-harm was limited to a full life of this person.
after all life, Illich, should be "sociable."That is all joyful in collaboration with friends and colleagues should be lived. Work and learning should be fun and rewarding. Received as they should, and not differentiated, games and recreational activities. A society that does not handle this type of socialization and learning is not right, nor the realization of the potential for humanity.
In later works, such as "tools for conviviality" and "Shadow Work" Illich developed the theme of what he meant, the good lifeLife. He took "good" in both its connotations - as well as moral and good is gratifying. "Vernacular" Illich was the word used to express the good life. The vernacular is the simple, local, local. Every person and every community has its own natural concept of the vernacular. It 'enveloped in a human being. And 'what a man can take the place of time to do it without relying on external support.
The bicycle was the hardware as Illichoften used to illustrate the language. The movement expanded its expertise and efforts to transport. He does not need massive system outside also has its outside their control. The car, unlike others, is not only a complex device requires a complex system without, but also requires more work and trouble that it generates traffic. If you consider all the hours you spend to buy a car, pay for gas and tires, shopping, taxes on the street, and insuredLicense to clean up pollution, and pay for all other costs, speed of travel is lower than that of a bicycle, and that neither count the hours, the cost or frustration spent in traffic jams and accidents.
In "Medical Nemesis" took the concept of medical system shows that not only cure medical ills would not, but they have created. In every aspect of our social life and the vernacular and overwhelmed by what Illich as reducedthe "job off." The profession of law has increased crime, the professional economists, scarcity and poverty have created the teaching profession has stunned us, the profession of farmer incrased hunger. With the loss of the vernacular has come the loss of family and community. The only goal of the people get to "make it" in the materialist world economy.
Illich's ideas in his recent essay brought a fitting climax. An essay "TheCultivation of Conspiracy "in" The challenge of Ivan Illich '2002 book is a collection of essays by many of his colleagues prepared a Honacki Lee and Carl Mitcham. This article discusses friendship. Friendship Illich writes not only to be kind and cooperative your neighbors. There is a deeper "conspiriatio is'. As with many of his writings is Illich to speak at length to explore the original meaning and the ideas and actions associated with this." Conspiriatio isBreathe together. But breathing is not only expel the air. It is about the breath of life - the soul. "Conspiriatio 'is the fusion of your inner being with others. And' best exemplified by the wedding kiss symbolizes, or more precisely, the combination of two souls. 'S more than the ceremony or the marriage license. It' s in physics 'love. And' the union of two entities. conspiratio or welding of these souls (although Illich, a former priest, not us the wordSoul) is the root of the vernacular and the social.
This short extension of Illich concepts is to only market for his book and the idea of society in which deschooling meaning. Homeschooling has grown from the ideas of Illich, Holt and others. During 1970, a few scattered families broke away from public school and began homeschooling. In 1980 there were approximately 10,000 to 20,000 of these homeschooling families only. As the number grew these schools scattered started home linkup to see organizations to provide resources and assume specific tasks such as legal defense of homeschooling. By the year 1990, the cells become soup and homeschooler ad hoc network was normal. "Academic support groups" were organized spontaneously in many communities and the Internet. In 2000, almost Ameican community that does not have a group homeschool support.
But in the practical struggle daily to homeschool their children, many, if notMost home schoolers Illich has left behind the social idealism and Holt. Parents who were influenced by the concept of school I could not leave their children to learn freely, provided that the community and the nature of them. They were led by their schools and parents have believed that natural and be leaders and authorities for their children. They tried to offer "expert" in school textbooks and curricula. And sharing information with other parents on how to make theirChildren-> tabs on the books. Their universal cry is for the government to "leave us in peace." They argued that "the rights of parents" to educate their children as they wish.
As a home school to be accepted by the mainstream, is also looking back to its roots and in the knowledge that "home schooling alone is insufficient. Sociality and the colloquial language in the format of the Home School support groups. The goal of a coalition for self-learning is the concept of leadDeschooling be true in society. We have seen this transformation is essential for the survival of humanity.
Bill Ellis
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