ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the noneconomic costs of progress: externalities and counter-purposive function that appear both in education and all other major economic sectors. It deals with the history of couple and the danger it gives rise to: highly repressive eco-paedogogical policies. The chapter provides education and development (E & D) when they are considered as a couple. E & D are two sacred cows that since 1949 have been harnessed as the draft animals of so called progress. Think of John Ohliger unmasking compulsory adult education as the final solution of learning opportunities. Learning without education, and satisfaction without production and consumption, appear as the desirable counterfoils to E & D. In the yellow light educational institutions is one source of inequality, or privilege, of negative taxation and of the disruption of urban space. Education, as manpower qualification, is an enterprise by which people are disciplined for competent performance at work which remains meaningless to them.
