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Educational wastelands

the retreat from learning in our public schools

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An edition of Educational Wastelands (1953)

Educational wastelands

the retreat from learning in our public schools

2nd ed. / with retrospectives by Clarence J. Karier and Foster McMurray.

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In Educational Wastelands (1953), Bestor charged that professional educationists had "lowered the aims of the American public schools," particularly by "setting forth purposes for education so trivial as to forfeit the respect of thoughtful men, and by deliberately divorcing the schools from the disciplines of science and scholarship" (pp. 8, 10). For Bestor, the traditional liberal arts curriculum represented the only acceptable form of secondary education. He claimed that Progressive educators, "by misrepresenting and undervaluing liberal education, have contributed … to the growth of anti-intellectualist hysteria that threatens not merely the schools but freedom itself." (p. 11)

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University of Illinois Press
Language
English
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292

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Subjects
Philosophy, Education, Aims and objectives, Schule, Bildungsniveau, Quantum theory
People
Arthur Eugene Bestor (1908-1994)
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United States
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1953

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1953, Univ. of Illinois Press
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1953, University of Illinois Press
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Bibliography: p. 209-226.
"Publications of Arthur Bestor on educational questions": p. 289-292.

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Dewey Decimal Class
370/.973
Library of Congress
LB875 .B345 1985

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xii, 292 p. ;
Number of pages
292

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OL3020857M
ISBN 10
0252012267
LCCN
85001014
OCLC/WorldCat
11728322
Library Thing
1645586
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871609

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