Deschoo­ling

Edu­ca­ti­on… now seems to me per­haps the most aut­ho­ri­ta­ri­an and dan­ge­rous of all the social inven­ti­ons of man­kind. It is the deepest foun­da­ti­on of the modern slave sta­te, in which most peo­p­le feel them­sel­ves to be not­hing but pro­du­cers, con­su­mers, spec­ta­tors, and ‘fans,’ dri­ven more and more, in all parts of their lives, by greed, envy, and fear. My con­cern is not to impro­ve ‘edu­ca­ti­on’ but to do away with it, to end the ugly and anti­hu­man busi­ness of peo­p­le-sha­ping and to allow and help peo­p­le to shape themselves.
(John Holt zum The­ma Un-/Deschoo­ling)