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Books That Made Me An Educator: Illich’s Flawed Classics

Posted on February 10, 2015 by John Connell

This is the second in an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator ...

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Schooling: “the pyramid of classified packages”

Posted on March 26, 2014 by John Connell

Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can b...

Culture/History/Learning/People/Society

Values for Today’s Education

Posted on September 21, 2013 by John Connell

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education. We want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the privileges of a...

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Learning in Abundance

Posted on September 9, 2013 by John Connell

So I then came to define education as learning under the assumption of scarcity, learning under the assumption that the means for acquiring something called kno...

Learning/Philosophy

Illich & Convivial Education

Posted on September 8, 2013 by John Connell

Ivan Illich used the phrase Tools for Conviviality as the title of one of his books. It is a powerful book with a trenchant set of messages, messages I have fou...

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