親愛的伊凡·伊里奇：
9月4日是你的生日，出生在奧地利的你，後來成為推展教育的思想家，你最有名的著作是” Deschooling Society” (1971)（去學校化） 這本書，相信大家都看過吧！書中有一段：
Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand the pedagogue's responsibility until it engulfs his pupils' lifetimes will deliver universal education. The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. We hope to contribute concepts needed by those who conduct such counterfoil research on education--and also to those who seek alternatives to other established service industries.
-- Ivan Illich,1971
你認為教育活動大部分是由於學校為市場經濟服務，原來是由真實情境中產生的知職，已被調製和包裝成為商品，導致知識變得抽象而無意義。學校所傳授的知識，就如同在超市的商品加人防腐劑，使其不易起化學變化，藉以延長有效的使用年限，類似的情形也會在課程中發生。在高度技術發展的社會，每個人被迫參與學校教育的儀式，而且儀式本身形成一股巨大的壓力。說來你真的說對了這些學校教育的詬病，你的反傳統理論到現代社會看來還是很有力量啊！2002年你因為癌症去世，距離今年剛好十年，而你過世那年剛好是我閱讀你大作的那一年，十年了。具有天主教宗教情懷的你應該在天堂的角落中叨叨絮絮吧！
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