ABSTRACT
Schooling fails to recognise that the fundamental unit of education is the educative experience of the individual and not the teacher-class relationship; moreover, its attitude to teaching has little to do with education but everything to do with the political transformation of self-educative individuals into dependent masses. School as an instrument of manipulation and surveillance must be challenged by teachers, parents and pupils. Throughout society the instruments of surveillance and social manipulation and the technology of destruction have reached a critical phase. The task of the educationist is to ensure meaningful participation in social decision making through resourcing educative experiences. Central to democracy is the individual's educative experience as a means of reflecting critically or appreciatively on social experience. Democracy is meaningless unless it involves participation in the decision making processes affecting the quality of one's life.
