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‘\\‘~.'\ . \l‘r’ . . Education is the securesi form of wealth.

\ Ivan Illich

un—schooled add to strati- fication and moderniZe pov - erty - and the pyramid takes_ off like a rocket:

intentionally or not)as a powerful system of structural~ inequality.And this is true in capitalist,socialist,or communist countries. ~‘”Education is the Securest form of wealth not simply because certification slots heople into certain socio— ' economic positions but mostly because the system is self: ’ justifying,educating the- drop-out to blame himself for his "failure" and society to respect the monopoly that the professions at the top of the pyramid have on their knowledge and entrance re strictions.Generally we don't question the right of a doc- tor to regularly receive ten times as much as a grade ten drop-out.Nor do we have easy access to the lawyer's knowledge of legal proced— ures and regulations affect— ing our 1iues,or to informa— tion on restrictions such as UﬁB law school having 1100 applications for 38 positions last year.Schooling obscures instead of enlightening;this is particularly true for ’ certification and its results. And "improvements"in the schools such as increased, spending,innovations,facilit- ies,and years of schooling won't change this situation.

(Editor's note: Art Reddin _ has agreed to do a series

goof articles on schooling ' ~5-and its impact on society.

: As many people know,Art is g‘a person with many exciting ideas on education,as well ='as having a lot of experience putting his ideas into pract- ice.He has worked in alter— native schools and alterna- tives to schooling in Ch'town and Anglo Tignish and is also a student rep on our illustrious Board of Governors.)

Unfortunately,it doesn't end there.Most of our systems or tools in both goods and service production in indus- trial society have gone beyond their natural limits It's almost funny nowadays Of benefit and in the Process when school administrators have caused greeter POlar‘ talk about the equality of ization 0f rieh and Poor. the public school system.0ften For example,it is common we reflect some of the same. place in most countries.of "knowledge—capitalist" mental“ the world for governments ity in seeking out greater

to fly professionals off to student aid or better facile this or that convention or ities or even Our degree conference.This special (Perhaps meetly our degree) treatment is often ration— Ecenomie inequality isn't alized by bureaucrats as the only PrOblem in a Compul‘ somé sort of upgrading for sory system of "treatment to progress.It is not only the make one betternaalthough it

exﬁenditure sf public msney is the most c1ear-cut.The view that is unjust but it is also is sometime put forward:"What

'the transportation system difference does it make if itseIf. - someone's rich or not?Having Airports,access roads, ‘material wealth isn't the way

computers,employees,jets,etc to find happiness and it

are wholly or partly finan— doesn't intereSt me at 311!" eed through public funds, I agree and would rather talk

yet the use of air travel of liberation than of "equal is restricted to those who ability to purchase consumer—

“Whereas it appears that however certain forms of government are better cal- culated than others to pro- tect individuals...and are better guarded against de-

55 generacy, yet experience ( hath shown that even under better forms, those entrust-

_ _f ed with power have 'f in time perverted it into tvranny; and it is be-

- "if’fring‘ ’ kii‘il‘

can_pay the high cost for. able goods and services".Yet, such "mobility" either out although man isn't intrinsic—. of their incomes or contract ally an economic being,economic benefits.(Incidently,similar inequalities are at leaSt Sym- npackaging" necessarily puts' tomatic of certain unjust human many consumer services and conditiOns.Please contact me goods out of reach of the if Y°u can help in this quest- poor,e.g.the fisherman gets ion or if you have "SPeCial

8c 3 1b. for fish yet his insight" about fundamental wife can't afford the spec— ' contradiCtionSin the school iallywrapped,decorated,de- System,A1so there are plans boned,frozen,shipped,handled, for running a seminar on

and advertized $1 a ib-$“V€" education,and a skill exchange market product -;)Anywa~y,openr [is being set up‘ at thé bulle— ended systems which benefit tin board in Main,— so,if

the certified weii‘edueeted you're interested,get active!

lieved that the most effect- ual means of preventing this would he to illuminate as far as practicable the minds of the people at large and more especially to give them knowledge of the experience of other ages and countries that they may be enabled to know ambition under all its

‘ shapes and defeat its purp- ‘iruose.“

Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge

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The inequality,however, doesn't stop at simply being a pyramid.In the upper echelons of the certified society the professionals get additional contract benefits(free from income tax)such as travel communication,vacation,& convention expenditures, which often are as great as

their salaries - a I st¢ca e There aresmigyRonnie at the expense of the V'ﬂét A when Thomas Jefferson indications that the definition A first proposed the right of progress asibeing,ever ‘tqoa, to three years of free increasing Service and goods +J public education in 1804 is a direct result of a , 5 \ «he had hoped that this schooled mentality or logic. “ beneficial service would If you've received a 1°t,than *3» \ Strength“? eemocra-eyend you're allowed to received’a " 1. CATIDNAL- equality in his country. lot lordsee chart) I‘ _ x, > ‘BuﬁAUCRMY ‘ Public schooling still par- With these extra Professgz;jz u I! ‘Vll . I ades under the banner of benefits,the pyramid stretChes ezw.“’ 0 . equal opportunity and~ out: ,\ ' U . G i { % [A h liberty but if Jefferson ~ ; no. tut mu. could see_the state of the 9': $‘uugua‘x‘nx.:¢ present-day system ;‘ «M git *.e I, f i he would be"spinning in his 3 Ikca .on.e . grave". _ 2. l Since it became compulsory a ' : less than a century ago,public \ schooling has servedﬂwhether . j. ’ A‘ f 7 i a“; " Ii a” '5 I? “A mus ‘ I. 3"“VS 0* sekooiin3 ‘ ' Aggie? “2i . o ' ' \l ‘ .

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