Editing Deschooling (section)

==Background==
Deschooling is credited to [[Ivan Illich]], who felt that the traditional schooling children received needed to be reconstructed.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1970_deschooling.html|title=DESCHOOLING SOCIETY|website=David Tinapple|access-date=2018-11-19}}</ref> Illich believed that schools contain a "hidden curriculum" that causes learning to align with grades and accreditation rather than with important skills.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Weston|first=Anthony|date=1996-01-01|title=Deschooling Environmental Education|url=https://cjee.lakeheadu.ca/article/view/491|journal=Canadian Journal of Environmental Education|language=en-US|volume=1|issue=1|pages=35–46|issn=1205-5352}}</ref> He believed that modern schooling is focused on growing schools as an industrialized system,<ref name=":0" /> a toxic industry that specializes in what families should be capable of forming themselves, namely education. According to Illich, schools align success on paper with academic excellence. As a result schools, grades, and diplomas give false assurances that the students have become knowledgeable in a certain educational concept.

[[John Holt (educator)|John Holt]] was an educator who also believed in deschooling. His thoughts were closely aligned with Illich because neither were convinced that school was where students learned everything they needed to know.<ref name=":0" /> Instead, they emphasized that students learn consistently through other means, such as exposure to the natural world.<ref name=":0" /> Illich and Holt saw schools as being insufficient because of their focus on "skill drill" instead of other methods of learning.<ref name=":0" /> Additionally, theorists of deschooling saw education as maintaining the social order.{{elucidate|date=April 2023}}<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Zaldívar|first=Jon|title=Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory |chapter=Social Imaginaries and Deschooling |date=March 2016|pages=1–5|doi=10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_384-1|isbn=978-981-287-532-7}}</ref> Therefore,{{non sequitur|date=April 2023}} they wanted to "denounce the monopoly that traditional education institutions held on education and learning."<ref name=":2" />