deschoolv.
/ˌdiːˈskuːl/, U.S. /ˌdiˈskul/ Education.
1. transitive. To limit or abolish institutionalized education in (a society); to subject (a society) to a process of deschooling (deschooling n. 1). Chiefly in or with reference to the writings of Ivan Illich. Also intransitive.
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1970 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 4 Dec. To achieve a change, Illich believes society must be de-schooled.
1971 I. Illich (title) Deschooling society.
1974 F. E. Balderston in N. J. Smelser & G. Almond Public Higher Educ. Calif. 145 His [sc. Illich's] proposed answer is to deschool, to make education private, voluntary, and nonformal, for the seeker of learning and for its provider.
2009 C. J. Bonk World is Open v. 169 Perhaps society is finally being deschooled as Ivan Illich wished decades earlier.
2. transitive. To remove (a child) from the school system so as to educate him or her at home. Also intransitive.
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1982 Times 8 Sept. 8/4 In the county of Hereford and Worcester..13 other families are deschooling without official objection.
1988 Here's Health June 45/3 Like most parents who de-school their children, neither started out with a particular antipathy towards schools.
1999 M. Griffith Homeschooling Handbk. (rev. ed.) vii. 117 Deciding to deschool my oldest gave me an excuse for all this.
Derivatives
deˈschooled adj.
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1971 Time 7 June 33/3 His deschooled world would replace most formal classes with networks of ‘learning exchanges’.
1987 Toronto Star (Nexis) 28 Mar. (Sunday 2nd section) b2 Thousands of deschooled children across the country..are effortlessly and joyfully pursuing a wide variety of academic topics of their own accord.
2008 G. McCulloch & D. Crook Routledge Internat. Encycl. Educ. 163/2 In a deschooled society,..there would be new formal mechanisms for the acquisition of skills and their educational use.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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