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>The Humanist Critique of School Education<: In a dialectical intellectual process, this critique of school education succeeds in elucidating those typical influence patterns that go into forming social character – which precede the school stage even. Not only diminished authority but a loss of psychic roots testify to the contradictory nature of children’s liberation. The school’s emphasis on individualization means that pupils are educated with the needs of the marketplace in mind. In the school itself, the production of >marketing< character structures is promoted by institutional mechanisms which, in essence, compel pupils to adapt to an authoritarian and hierarchical educational theory. As a counterweight to this >colonization< of schoolchildren, discussion here focuses on key proposals of how the school may have its humanity restored. Paramount here would be a new role for teachers, one involving restructured cognition processes, revised educational programs, and altered self-perspectives in pedagogical psychology. Also needed is a reform of instructional forms so as to make them more living, adventurous, and socially responsive. Growing educationaldifficulties also render essential an extension of counseling and supervision in matters related to pedagogical psychology. Finally, a number of leading categories are developed within which the humanization of the school can best proceed.