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According to a contemporary review in The Libertarian Forum, " Illich's advocacy of the free market in education is the bone in the throat that is choking the public educators.

" Although it is important to note that Illich's opposition was not merely to publicly-funded schooling, as with the libertarians, but to schooling as such ; the disestablishment of schools was for him not a means to a free market in educational services, but a deschooled society, which was a more fundamental shift.

As he later asserted in After Deschooling, What?

( 1973 ): ' We can disestablish schools, or we can deschool culture '.

He actually opposed advocates of free-market education as " the most dangerous category of educational reformers.