Children need skills that will enable them to play a future role that is constructive for them and constructive for society. ... Holt wrote: I do not think we can treat as separate the quality of education and the quality of life in general. ... ... Illich summed this up in 1971 when he wrote: School has become the planned process which tools man for a planned world, the principal tool to trap man in man's trap. It is supposed to shape each man to an adequate level for playing a part in this world game. ...