It is suggested that independent study, community service, large doses of solitude, and a variety of different apprenticeships with adults in all walks of life are keys to helping children break the thrall of a conforming society. The book argues that between schooling and television, children have little time to learn for themselves-about the community they live in, or the lives they might lead instead, they are schooled to obey orders and become smoothly functioning cogs in the industrial machine. The five essays in this book criticize the "deadening heart" of compulsory state schooling, described as a series of assumptions and structures that stamp out the self-knowledge, curiosity, concentration and solitude essential to learning-a system wherein education and schooling are mutually exclusive terms.
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