From Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society

Reading Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society." Published in 1970, but speaks to the present. On page 74:

"In a basic sense, schools have ceased to be dependent on the ideology professed by any government or marke organization. Other basic institutions might differ from one country to another: family, party, church, or press. But everywhere the school system has the same structure, and everywhere its hidden curriculum has the same effect. Invariably, it shapes the consumer who values institutional commodoties above the nonprofessional ministration of a neighbor....

In view of this identity, it is illusory to claim that schools are, in any profoudn sense, dependent variables. This means that to hope for fundamental change in the school system as an effect of conventially conceived social or economic change is also an illusion MOreover, this illusion granst the school - the reproductive organ of a consumer society - almost unquestioned immunity"

If school is truly reproducing consumers (which I believe it is, and I see as unhealthy), is it safe to let schools receive financing from corporations? - see this link

Here is an interesting assignment from the Curry School of Education...

The separation of church and state exists, so how about the separation of school and business?