uires no teaching. He further holds that each individual is personally responsible for her or his own deschooling, and only we as individuals have the power to do it. He also holds individuals cannot free themselves from excessive consumption until they free them selves from obligatory school. Lastly, he also contends that, in a schooled society, war making and civil repression find an educational rationale.
Illich finds the contemporary concept of school to be a system of false ideas, which is being used to justify an existing material and economic organization of society. Illich, through deschooling society, would attemp to recon struct society in a way in which the individual will ultimately become the fundamental political unit of society. According to Illich, the contemporary schooled society perpetuates class divisions, while deschooling will lead to a classless society. 3 One successful example of the concept of nonformal educa tion is the conduct of health care and good health education in Mexico (La Belle, 1986, pp. 198 199). Similar programs have been conducted among the native Indian populations of Central America (La Belle, 1986, pp. 199 200). These norformal educa tion programs hold out the promise of improvements in health and living standards for the populations affected to a degree which would not likely ever be attained through formal education pro grams directed at these populations. As is true in Illich's concept, these nonformal education programs do not mark an end to education. Rather, they mark the beginning of an alterna tive approach to the process of education.
La Belle, T. J. (1986). Nonformal education in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Praeger Publishers.
(17,4) Social demand for education increases in the LDC even though there may be underemployment among the educated. Explain why this phenomenon occurs and what solutions might be appropriate.
Social demand for edu...