Ivan Illich (1926–2002)

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1. Ivan Illich

   Author of Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health, Tools for Conviviality, Imprisoned in the Global Classroom

2. John Caldwell Holt

   Author of How Children Learn, How Children Fail, The Underachieving School

3. John Taylor Gatto

   Author of Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, The Underground History of American Education, Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

4. E. F. Schumacher

   Author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, Guide for the Perplexed, Good Work

5. Neil Postman

   Author of Teaching As a Subversive Activity, The Disappearance of Childhood, Conscientious objections : stirring up trouble about language, technology, and education

6. John Dewey

   Author of Experience And Education, Democracy And Education, Experience and Nature

7. Christopher Lasch

   Author of The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics, The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times

8. Herbert Marcuse

   Author of One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, An Essay on Liberation

9. Paul Goodman

   Author of Growing Up Absurd, Compulsory Mis-Education, and the Community of Scholars.

10. David Cayley

    Author of The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich, Ivan Illich in Conversation

11. Erving Goffman

    Author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

12. Gregory Bateson

    Author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)

13. R. D. Laing

    Author of The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, The Politics of Experience

14. Noam Chomsky

    Author of Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, American Power and the New Mandarins, Powers and Prospects: Reflections on human nature and the social order

15. Thomas Stephen Szasz

    Author of The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (Revised Edition), The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

16. Lewis Mumford

    Author of Technics and Civilization, The Myth Of The Machine - The Pentagon Of Power, The Culture of Cities

17. Theodore Roszak

    Author of The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition, Where the Wasteland Ends

18. Paulo Freire

    Author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed

19. Alexander Sutherland Neill

    Author of Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing

20. Jacques Derrida

    Author of Positions, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation