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Publication date:
07 October 2011Length of book:
192 pagesPublisher
R&L EducationISBN-13: 9781607097259
This is a book is of educational ideas, commentaries, and observations from the past. The passages recorded here come from educational writings that were produced between 1880 and 1935—a time period that began with spirited calls for school reform and ended with a new and different concept of what it meant to be educated. It was this new concept of education that laid the foundation for the modern American school system.
If you took the dates away from so many of these quotations, the words would seem as appropriate to today's education scene as they were 100 or so years ago when first written. The value of these quotations, and the style in which Corey Lock presents them, is that they remind us of 'essences'—and boil down a lot of modern verbiage to make the meaning, and the importance, more clear. What Corey Lock has shown us in this book is that we can gain value by revisiting points of view from our own past to shed better light on the dilemmas we grapple with today.