Mises Daily
Author:
Leonard P. Liggio
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One had to be struck by the vehemence with which Ivan Illich ‘s Deschooling Society has been attacked. The review in the New York Times Book Review (July 11, 1971) by one of the educational establishment is an example. Why this violent reaction, one wondered, reading through the review? And then, the answer came. Illich’s advocacy of the free