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People have expressed ambivalence about education and schools for a long time. On the one hand, it is believed that a good education should produce better people, better in every aspect of human life: intellectual, moral, physical, social, vocational, aesthetic, spiritual and civic. On the other hand, we know that schools have often induced fear, boredom, subjugation and feelings of inadequacy among those being educated. Fifty years ago, Ivan Illich (1971) suggested that, if we want to enjoy the true promise of education, we must find alternative ways to educate; we should “deschool” our society.
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Noddings, N., Lees, H.E. (2016). Introduction & This Handbook . In: Lees, H., Noddings, N. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Alternative Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41291-1_1
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