ABSTRACT
Twenty years ago, Ivan Illich achieved a certain notoriety in educational circles following the publication of Deschooling Society in 1971. Much of the book was devoted to criticisms of the mentality of subservience, inferiority and dependency which traditional school learning induced, but in the chapter on ‘Learning Webs’, Illich claims that:
We can depend on self-motivated learning instead of employing teachers to bribe or compel the student to find the time and the will to learn; that we can provide the learner with new links to the world instead of continuing to funnel all education programs through the teacher.
(p. 73)