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Bartleby, The Scrivener

A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copies or do any other task required of him, refusing with the words "I would prefer not to."

Decolonising English Studies: Attaining Swaraj

A powerful Valedictory Address on decolonizing ourselves.

Launching the Multiversity

A brief note on the need to overthrow the present day "educational system" and call for the multiversities movement.

Carbon Metrics - Global Abstractions and Ecological Epistemicide

This essay seeks to bring a more complex-ified perspective and an epistemological critique of the current climate debate, its CO2 reductionism and the risks entailed with the creation of global metrics.

From a Pedagogy for Liberation to Liberation from Pedagogy

Given the well-established image of Paulo Freire as a progressive, radical even revolutionary, it may seem preposterous, outrageous, even ridiculous to present him as a conservative thinker and practitioner.

A Modest Proposal

For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden on their parents and their country, and for making them beneficial to the public.

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Ever wondered why children are more addicted to television and less addicted to listening to stories? The television uses a very simple dictatorship model to control our lives.

Questioning Authority

There are a number of stereotypical attributes that are unjustifiably linked to expertise, and it is important to avoid relying on them These stereotypes include age, wealth, maleness, whiteness, self-confidence, credentials, specialization, and techno-elitism.

Why I am not a Hindu

A Sudra Critique of Hindutva Philosophy, Culture and Political Economy

Development Dictionary: Planning

The concept of planning embodies the belief that social change can be engineered and directed, produced at will.

Letter from Chief Seattle

A Native American Chief sharing their relationship with nature.

Learning? Yes, of course. Education? No, thanks.

Many people use the words ÔÇ£learningÔÇØ and ÔÇ£educationÔÇØ more or less interchangeably. But a momentÔÇÖs reflection reveals that they are not at all the same.

The Intimate and the Ultimate

Lots of beautiful thoughts from Vinoba Bhave, including a powerful story on Only Teaching.

Thoughts on Education

I have described this incident because so many people are trying to turn Nai Talitn into a system ; and if this idea gets imprisoned in a system, it will be killed writes Vinoba Bhave.

The Student's Prayer

Dedicated to all those courageous learners in India who have chosen to leave school to pursue more meaningful, creative and just paths of learning, living and being.

To Hell with Good Intentions

An address by Monsignor Ivan Illich to students about the deep dangers of paternalism inherent in any voluntary service activity.

Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America

Our laborious Manner of Life comparÔÇÖd with theirs, they esteem slavish & base...

The Three Seeds

Once upon a time, the tribe of humanity embarked upon a long journey called Separation. It was not a blunder as some ÔÇô seeing its ravages upon the planet ÔÇô might think. Nor was it a fall, nor an expression of some innate evil peculiar to the human species.

The Prophet of Conviviality

Ivan Illich saw the ecological crisis as a genuine turning-point: a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rediscover what he called conviviality: "the autonomous and creative intercourse among persons and of persons with their environment".

In Distrust of Movements

I have been pondering about the necessity of get┬¡ting out of movements even movements that have seemed necessary and dear.

John Holt - Interview

John Holt describes why he gave up on trying to reform schools and started advocating that families liberate their children from schooling.

The Trouble with Knowledge

Munir Fasheh raises many fundamental questions around the relevance of knowledge, the process of its selection and the issue of power

Bartleby, The Scrivener

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Letter from Chief Seattle

Thoughts on Education

Articles

Bartleby, The Scrivener

Decolonising English Studies: Attaining Swaraj

Launching the Multiversity

Carbon Metrics - Global Abstractions and Ecological Epistemicide

From a Pedagogy for Liberation to Liberation from Pedagogy

A Modest Proposal

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Questioning Authority

Why I am not a Hindu

Development Dictionary: Planning

Letter from Chief Seattle

Learning? Yes, of course. Education? No, thanks.

The Intimate and the Ultimate

Thoughts on Education

The Student's Prayer

To Hell with Good Intentions

Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America

The Three Seeds

The Prophet of Conviviality

In Distrust of Movements

John Holt - Interview

The Trouble with Knowledge

Books

Walkout Walkon

Confessions of an Economic Hitman

Hind Swaraj

The Spell of the Sensuous

Days of War, Nights of Love

Development Dictionary

Seeing Like a State

Danger: School!

One Straw Revolution

School is Dead

Dumbing Us Down

Deschooling Society

Everywhere All the Time: A Deschooling Reader

The Teenage Liberation Handbook

Monoculture

Change the Story, Change the Future

Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh

The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Small is beautiful

Instead of Education

In the Absence of the Sacred

Films

Anu Aunty - The Engineering Anthem

3 Idiots

Patch Adams Speech

Accepted - Closing Speech

On Modern Servitude

they school

The War on Kids

Student vs. Teacher

I Sued the School System

Schooling the world

Ecoversities Network: Re-Learning Hope

Ecoversities Network: Re-Learning the Land

Leap Of Faith

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