Catherine Baker

Catherine Baker (born the 16 July 1947 with Lille) was Journaliste, it is currently writer.

Principal works

1979 : the contemplative ones, of the women between them
1982: Trotts in ordinary lonelinesses
1985: Insubordination to the obligatory school
1988: books with fire
2005: Pourquoi would it be necessary to punish?

In its third book, it makes the critic of the obligatory education system and justifies the parents who chose the unschooling (the Not-schooling, it not education in residence: " as soon as the decline of the Church appeared, it was necessary that the State urgently finds the means of being made admit in the spirits and this in a way as totalitarian as the Church had reached " that point;.

Another quotation of Catherine Baker: " the only fight deeply useful to carry out, it is not against the authority, but against the tender. There only, the capacity, whatever it is, is losing ".

And with Christiane Rochefort on the colonization of the spirits and the hearts: " one occupies the children as one occupies a country ".

In the line of Christiane Rochefort (at Grasset: the small children of the century , Still happy that one goes about the summer , the children initially ), Catherine Baker also produced many emissions, in particular with France Culture. In general, these series treat topics related to enfermement (Prison S, school S, psychiatric hospitals, etc).

Would its last work Pourquoi be necessary to punish? is devoted to the abolition of the criminal Law and to that of the prisons. She sought a publisher offering the characteristic to accept the setting in free line of the full text, parallel to the edition with low costs on paper. The book is accompanied by a Web site, Abolition Prisons, having for objective to gather the militants for the abolition of the prisons.

In 2006, " Insubordination to the school obligatoire" was republished by this same publisher, Tahin Party (with there too put in free line of the full text).

See too

School at the house

External bonds

Full texts of Pourquoi would it be necessary to punish? and of Insubordination to the obligatory school on the site of the publisher Tahin Party
Interview
VENS " to live together and not eduquer" … Would site on not-schooling, the homeschooling and especially the unschooling
Page with several quotations of its books
Abolition Prisons DEBATEs on the book Pourquoi be necessary to punish? and ideas of abolition of the prisons

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