Education: Cui Bono?

To Train for Success is to Invite Bankruptcy

The private school, says John Dewey, may exist for such special training as it pleases, but the public school must serve the purpose of the community as a whole. Hence it must teach " those subjects which are found to be, first, necessary, and, secondly, highly useful in serving this purpose of developing good citizenship, industrial and political, for leisure as well as for work, good members of the family and the neighborhood as well as of the political state and the workshop and farm."...

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