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It’s time schooling was abolished

Schooling where the badge of honour for male college students is the number of girls from a ‘rival’ tribe one has raped in a year, where kids learn how to use drugs, experiment with their bodies is a process of anarchy. Schooling as we have it today should be abolished.

Before you lynch me, read Ivan Illich’s ‘Deschooling Society’. We may prevaricate, blame teachers or whoever, but all this smoky business in schools is symptomatic of an over-schooled society.

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