School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere. . .
Source: Celebration of Awareness, ch. 8 (1969).
-- Ivan Illich, ( 1926-2002), Austrian-born US writer; He is best known for his writings on sociology and theology in Celebration of Awareness, 1969.