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onymous wrote

Haven't read 'Deschooling Society,' but I've personally found a whooole lot of the ideas associated with unschooling/radical unschooling to be really helpful, typically, but not always.

It has long been my opinion that "education" as a term/concept is best abandoned, as it seems to describe a distinct phenomenon that is decidedly authoritarian. Education, it seems to me, is best delineated as a term for something done to you, the production of a self that is useful to an institution, treating pre-processed you as raw materials. Even if that production is "community-run" and/or decentralized. In that way, I guess education:learning :: work:activity. (Although the former are subsets of the latter.) This opinion is very unpopular, however.

...Anyway, some recs (don't know many books, sorry):

Toward the Destruction of Schooling

Overcoming the Psychology of High School

Manifesto Against Schools

Dropping Out (for students)

Discipline and Punish is outdated now but had some fascinating insights too.

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