A Book Review

Illich, Ivan. (1971). Deschooling Society. New York: Harper & Row.

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I. Though I am a member of the educated public, I’ve come to believe the school system as we know it is irrevocably flawed.

II. Suffocated System
   a. Age
   b. Teacher & Pupils
   c. Fulltime attendance

III. Deschooling Self & Society
   a. “The discovery that most learning requires no teaching can be neither manipulated nor planned. Each of us is personally responsible for his or her own deschooling, and only we have the power to do it. No one can be excused if he falls to liberate himself from schooling.” – pp 47-48
   b. “I believe that the contemporary crisis of education demands that we review the very idea of publicly prescribed learning, rather than the methods used in its enforcement.” – p 65
   c. “In school registered students submit to certified teachers in order to obtain certificates of their own; both are frustrated and both blame insufficient resources—money, time, or buildings—for their mutual frustration…The alternative to dependence on schools is not the use of public resources for some new device which “makes” people learn; rather it is the creation of anew style of educational relationship between man and his environment.” – p 72
   d. “Contemporary man goes further; he attempts to create the world in his image, to build a totally man-made environment, and then discovers that he can do so only on the condition of constantly remaking himself to fit it. We now must face the fact that man himself is at sake.” – p 107

IV. Deschooling society starts with realizing the terms “schooling” and “education” are not synonyms.

A Book Review

Krannich, Caryl R. (1998). 101 Secrets of Highly Effective Speakers. Manassa Park, VA: Impact Publications.

Once we come to an understanding of the world and our world the need for change will become apparent. Seeing the gap between who we are and who we want to become will transform change from a sad task to wonderful transition.

A Book Review

Koegel, Timothy J. (2007). The Expectional Presenter: A Proven Formula to Open Up! and Own the Room. Austin, Texas: Greenleaf Book Group Press.

All Hail to the Christ Within Each One!

Thank God for bringing us over into this new calendar year 2010. I had delayed giving the year declaration because the spirit did not reveal one to me yet. But in our afternoon service yesterday the spirit overshadowed me with a message for the youth. And this morning while talking to a fellow clergy about it the spirit spoke – “2010 – The Year of Understanding and Change”.

I will do a few videos on the subject but these words understanding and change are deeply intertwined. We need to get things straight in our lives this year! The same old, same old, will not help us this year. There is a great calling we all must fulfill and its time we get moving with it. We need to become more practical minded in our goal-setting.

Times are too critical to be lazy, foolish, and purposeless. God wants us to make a change for the better. This desire is the basis of the holy scriptures of all loving faiths. Yet dear ones change cannot come with without understanding.

May God bless you! Peace, joy, happiness, and financial prosperity are yours in 2010 if you heed to the call of God.

I have the honor to be your obedient servant,
Rev. George H. Latimer-Knight
Written January 11, 2010