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A Primer of Libertarian Educationreviewed by Diane Ravitch - 1977 Title: A Primer of Libertarian Education Author(s): Joel Spring Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: 1551641178, Pages: 157, Year: 1975 Search for book at Amazon.com There is a story, perhaps apochryphal, that someone has scrawled
the following graffitti in the washroom at Ivan Illich's CIDOC
center in Cuernavaca, Mexico: "Ivan Illich runs a school." Well,
now it can be said that Joel Spring, a follower of Illich and a
leading advocate of anarchism in education, has a plan for
the reconstruction of society. And his plan, put forward in
the name of libertarianism, involves a degree of government
intervention into personal life that is far more extensive
than anything yet seen in this country.
Spring takes Illich's proposal for deschooling society several
steps further. As an anarchist, he opposes all
institutionalized efforts to make children into something, to
shape character, to define for someone else what is good. He
maintains that it is not just the school that shapes "the
moral and social beliefs of the population for the benefit of a
dominant elite"; an even more potent source of domination and
indoctrination is the middle-class family structure.1
So, while much of... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Diane Ravitch
Teachers College, Columbia University Diane Ravitch is adjunct assistant professor of history and education and research associate in the Institute of Philosophy and Politics of Education at Teachers College.
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