Talk:Deschooling

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"Unforunately, neither Illich nor his followers have offered any real alternatives to schools"

"Among those who disagree with formal schooling, for whatever reasons, it refers to a supposed mental process a person goes through after being removed from a formal schooling environment, when the so-called "school mindset" is countered. No real explanation of this "mindset" nor the effects or results of such a process have been described"

Both of these are false and blatantly POV, if you ask me. Unschooling, deschooling, homeschooling, and so on are the alternatives offered; saying no alternatives to traditional schooling are offered by alternative schooling proponents in this article is like saying in an article on Communism that communists presented no alternative to capitalism.

I'm going to remove the passages for now. If anyone cares to defend them I'd like to hear the reasoning.24.3.229.31 03:44, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I've reverted the second paragraph several times in the last year or so. I wrote it originally, but someone keeps inserting their own POV into it. I've now reverted it again. If anyone has a problem with it, could they please bring it up on the talk page? -- Scott e^iπ 07:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)