School is Dead: Alternatives in EducationIn this startling indictment Everett Reimer strips away traditional idolatry and currently fashionable procedural criticism and gets down to the nub: our school systems are over-costly, monopolistic institutions with more kinship to slavery than to education, which set their own rules and definitions and permanently penalize those who don't conform; institutions that promise the world and are the very instruments of its denial. The book evaluates the school system not by its own standards but in terms of what school is supposed to accomplish-and finds it fatally lacking. It must be replaced, the author cogently argues, by multiple radical alternatives suited to the multiple needs of the young and designed to bring about a truly free society. |
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Foreword | 9 |
The Case Against Schools | 19 |
What Schools Do | 31 |
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