Ivan Illich on schooling

I was never invited to read Ivan Illich’s work as part of my graduate studies, but it’s become clear to me that I need to be paying attention to it — this little video helps to explain why.

2 Comments

paul commented on 09 March 2009:

Hey Mary,

Sounds like an important work. Would love to hear what you think of it after you do some reading. My thesis is due in a few months, so I don't have time to read much right now.

Paul.

Scharen commented on 09 March 2009:

Hi, Mary. I've been wanting to read something from Illich since finishing Charles Taylor's A Secular Age where towards the end he calls on stage several exemplars of the kind of Christian faith that Taylor himself finds most compelling -- Ivan Illich, Charles Peguy, and Gerard Manley Hopkins -- under the interesting chapter title, "Conversions" (the last chapter).
Peace, and thanks for your lovely magpie blogging. I love it.
Chris