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Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society" (Part 1/2)

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The Myth of Institutional Values

The idea that personal growth is not a measurable entity. Think about how much in our lives that experience is just embedded in us because we went through the schooling system. We feel better than someone else because we got better grades or have a better institution. So this is a way of kind of dropping out of the value and the evaluating of institutions. And it can't be, oh, I have a discipline. Disciplines can only be enacted through imaginative endeavor, right? Is a measurable no measurement is possible here.

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