From: SnoWStorM01-AT-aol.com Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 00:59:51 EST Subject: Re: Ivan Illich? In a message dated 2/10/00 11:05:03 PM Central Standard Time, vespass-AT-toast.net writes: << I think he's actually on the right track here, in that the producer-consumer model where a student has to get/purchase his education from an expert/producer which then leads to a lifetime of turning to experts and institutions to solve our problems and provide for our desires/needs. >> I'd say more than promoting consumerism in the sense that it makes people turn to experts and institutions, it forces people to become those experts and part of those institutions and by doing so, it eliminates the time they have to take care of themselves and thus forces them to turn to the experts/institutions. Schooling until age 16 is manditory (at least in the U$.) Thats 10 years of schooling they have to break a student. Sophmore year they begin to start talking about highschool. I don't know about all schools, but I know -AT- my public school, they talk about college like it's manditory as well. If they can totally blind you to this too, which happens to many students, then they go off to college to study a field which they would like a profession in. You choose it, but then you're locked in it. Instead of learning to care for themselves, they learn how to do one skill for other people 8-10 hours a day and are unable to care for themselves other than buying the help of others. Rookie
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