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In 1971, priest, theologian, and philosopher Ivan Illich wrote Deschooling Society, a plea to liberate education from schooling and to separate schooling from the state. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later looks at the theological roots of Illichs thought and the intellectual and ideological strands that contributed to his ideas. Guided by the central question of how Illich reached the point of writing Read more