Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: trained dependency

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 11:32, Frank Pohlmann wrote:
> But: does all this apply to the majority of us? 

The beginning of "Deschooling Society" says it like it needs to be said:

http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Deschooling/chap1.html

"Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the
schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance.
Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment
there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success.
The pupil is thereby "schooled" to confuse teaching with learning, grade
advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with
the ability to say something new. His imagination is "schooled" to
accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for
health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police
protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat
race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and
creative endeavor are defined as little more than the performance of the
institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is
made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of
hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question."