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Who Will Educate the Educators? |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: George C.S. Benson and John West, Jr. |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 2,216 Words, 13,417 Characters |
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THE TROUBLED CRUSADE
American Education 1945-1980
Diane Ravitch
New York: Basic Books, 1983
xiii + 384 pp., $19.95 (cloth), $8.95 (paper)
THE SCHOOLS WE DESERVE
Reflections on the Educational Crises of Our Time
Diane Ravitch
New York: Basic Books, 1985
ix + 137 pp., $19.95
CHALLENGE TO AMERICAN SCHOOLS
The Case for Standards and Values
Edited by John H. Bunzel
New York: Oxford University Press, 1985
viii + 248 pp., $19.95
It is strange how a nation as firmly rooted in fundamental ideas of ethics, political theory, and liberal education as America could have banished those fundamental values from its public schools only a century and a quarter after the Founding.
Yet that is what happened, according to educator Diane Ravitch.
Rav...
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...ral confusion, it is not enough to simply demand the return of "moral education." There is such a lack of agreement on what morality is today (or why it is) that its very underpinnings must be rediscovered. That process of rediscovery involves reason; in the future, it may involve the use of revelation (for sola reason has its own theoretical problems). At any rate, we ought to begin now.
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