Everett Reimer

American educator and critic of institutional schooling, associated with Ivan Illich and the deschooling movement; author of School Is Dead: An Essay on Alternatives in Education (1971).

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  1. 1. School Is Dead

    Alternatives in Education

    A radical critique of compulsory schooling that argues institutions primarily sort, control, and certify rather than nurture curiosity, thereby entrenching social inequality through credentialism and bureaucracy. It calls for dismantling the school monopoly and building decentralized learning networks—resources, mentors, apprenticeships, and peer exchanges—that enable self-directed study, competence-based recognition, and equitable access to knowledge as a social right beyond classrooms and grades.