Deschooling Society Trend

A good friend of mine, John Ohliger, who died in 2004, was upset with continuing education because he saw it as a "parasitic" self-serving requirement to keep the budgets of adult education growing. He, of course, lost his job for voicing such ideas at the Ohio State University; he drifted to Madison, Wisconsin, where I met him, because of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's powerful reputation as a center of excellence for adult education. John mentored me well before he died; he was a great advocate of Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society to let adults learn in contexts outside of classrooms, e.g. apprenticeships. As budgets collapse, look for "deschooling" to gain force as a trend.