ABSTRACT
Rich nations now benevolently impose a straitjacket of traffic jams, hospital confinements and classrooms on the poor nations, and by international agreement call this ‘development’. It is now common to demand that the rich nations convert their war machine into a program for the development of the Third World. In most Third World countries, the population grows, and so does the middle class. The translation of social goals into levels of consumption is not limited to only a few countries. Underdevelopment is at the point of becoming chronic in many countries. All Latin American countries are frantically intent on expanding their school systems. The intense promotion of schooling leads to so close an identification of school attendance and education that in everyday language the two terms are interchangeable. At present, schooling is conceived as graded, curricular, class attendance by children, for about 1000 hours yearly during an uninterrupted succession of years.
