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Although the webpage is primarily opinion , it should be balanced quite out of necessity with facts to back up the author 's point of view . The site does however offer intriguing commentary on school reform

Passage 2

I want to raise the general question of the mutual definition of man 's nature and the nature of modern institutions which characterizes our world view and language . To do so , I have chosen the school as my paradigm , and I therefore deal only indirectly with other bureaucratic agencies of the corporate state : the consumer-family

, the party , the army , the church , the media (Illich 2007

Critical Commentary on Passage 2

In this passage again the reader sees the opinion of the author . The author does give the reader a chance to understand his in appropriation with his underlying theory . The fact that the author states that schools are becoming ill-directed and matches this institute with other institutes such as hospitals and police is an avenue of state and government issues that must also be focused on in the essay

Passage 3

Not only education but social reality itself has become schooled . It costs roughly the same to school both rich and poor in the same dependency . The yearly expenditure per pupil in the slums and in the rich suburbs of any one of twenty U .S . cities lies in the same range-and sometimes is favorable to the poor (Illich 2007

Critical Commentary on Passage 3

The author expounds upon his primary thesis statement of the reform of the school . In this statement however the reader can witness some facts about how the school should be reformed . Along this avenue the author continues to state that there should not be segregation in the education system and presents the dichotomy between rich and poor in...