Mainstream WeeklyAbstract: The school has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. The ideology of obligatory schooling admits of no logical limits. Indeed, preventive concentration camps for pre-delinquents would be a logical improvement over school system. Neither learning nor justice is promoted by schooling because educators insist on packaging instructions with certification. Learning and assignment of social roles are melted into schooling.
Introduction:
The pedagogical torture relies on random terror to break the integrity of an entire population and makes it plastic material for the teachings invented by technocrats. The belief that man can do what God cannot manipulate other for their own salvation. We can challenge the assumption that valuable knowledge as a commodity that is under certain circumstances increasingly dominated by pseudo schools and totalitarian managers of information.
Value is replaced by service:
Illich explains how the process of degradation is accelerated when non-material needs are transformed it to demand for commodities. A person in her imagination is