Plough Quarterly No. 19 - School for Life

by Andrew Balio, Julian Peter, Karen Swallow Prior, et al.

Book Overview

What we want for schools reveals what we value as a society. "What's the point of school?" Parents have a stock set of responses, but the question remains unsettled, even two centuries after the Prussians invented compulsory education. The Prussian idea of what a school is for - to mold the populace to serve the state - seems unacceptable today. In vogue, instead, are slogans like "acquiring marketable skills" and "realizing your full potential."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874863279
• ISBN13: 9780874863277
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Plough Publishing House
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.5" x 10.1"