The New School Year

In the last five years, several local and international private schools have opened up in major cities, charging exorbitant entrance fees.

May 11, 2004

AT times when parents are scurrying in search of the right schools for their children, we should remember the words of Ivan Illich. The doctor of philosophy and theology, who was born in Vienna in 1926, criticized the school board in an article entitled Why We Must Abolish Schooling published in The New York Review of Books in July 1970. The gist of his criticism was that educational bureaucrats and teachers were focusing on teaching,

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