De-schooling, schools without walls, alternative schools, freedom and open schools—are all predicated on the premise that traditional or prevailing schools are oppressive. Somehow out of, and in spite of, this oppression, democratic esprit presses for change and enlightenment. There is a subtle contradiction here. History notes that oppression succeeds by suppressing the conscious level of subjects by the ruling class and delimited for the expediency of industry, but as the co...