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<blockquote><i>Compulsory schooling is an "outworn system"<br>that is "doomed to malfunction"</i></blockquote> | <blockquote><i>Compulsory schooling is an "outworn system"<br>that is "doomed to malfunction"</i></blockquote> | ||
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<p>When schools become the dominant educational institution, they become pedagogically perverse—or so influential critics contend. Hence, the perennial plea for scholastic reform is now being transformed into a call for the deschooling of society. If this call is to become more than a critical fad, it will have to culminate in a suspension, or at least a revision, of compulsory education laws, for these are the legal mandates requiring that the young be inducted into the schooled society.</p> | <p>When schools become the dominant educational institution, they become pedagogically perverse—or so influential critics contend. Hence, the perennial plea for scholastic reform is now being transformed into a call for the deschooling of society. If this call is to become more than a critical fad, it will have to culminate in a suspension, or at least a revision, of compulsory education laws, for these are the legal mandates requiring that the young be inducted into the schooled society.</p> | ||