File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0002, message 210


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.
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