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...Ages. Worse, says Illich, much of what schools now teach is a waste. As he sees it, "most people acquire most of their knowledge outside of school," the way children master speaking and walking. Middle-class parents tacitly admit the potency of nonschool learning, Illich observes dryly, when they "commit their children to a teacher's care to keep them from learning what the poor learn on the street." Beyond that, recent studies have shown that much formal schooling has little bearing on success...
...real angonies of policy decisions. With the effective aid of hindsight he can confidently, even arrogantly, quantify any situation. As predictability is a solid test of analytic accuracy. Dumont could have better conveyed his self-confidence with some forecasts about Cuba's sugar production. Instead he wavers, refusing to commit himself in this controversial area...
...mother has tried to instill in her since childhood, through the robbery and racism of which her family's wealth is a product, and the maxim that you don't rock the boat, even if the boat is sinking. She has seen through the parents who want to commit her to an asylum for her behavior and her ideas, and has tried desperately to escape. First, a weak attempt at suicide, and then a violently determined but agonizing retreat from the life she has known and grown...
...British, too, come to share that view? The issue is almost certain to develop into one of the hardest-fought battles in modern British politics. For both major parties, it poses severe quandaries. If public opinion continues to run against Market entry, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson may well commit his party to a position against Common Market membership. That, in turn, would cause a break between him and Deputy Party Leader Roy Jenkins, a dedicated "European," and a damaging split within Labor...
...regimes which Nixon and Kissinger seek to defend in Southeast Asia are among the most cruel and totalitarian in the world. Their leaders imprison their political enemies, commit indiscriminate murder, and impose a rule of terror and dictatorship on their native populations. And it is not out of some perverted sense of fairness or democracy that these regimes are being defended. It is out of a harsh, brutal calculation of what an imperialist, power like the United States must do to maintain itself in the world...