In the final years of the 19th century, a great transformation began in American education. By the end of the first world war, Americans would notice increasingly a change in the way their children were being educated. In the succeeding decades, the same schools that once nurtured the American dream would become infested with drugs and crime, and high schools would be graduating s In the final years of the 19th century, a great transformation began in American education. Voyager program wikipedia. ![]() The Singapore SolutionBy the end of the first world war, Americans would notice increasingly a change in the way their children were being educated. Mac virus program. In the succeeding decades, the same schools that once nurtured the American dream would become infested with drugs and crime, and high schools would be graduating students who could barely read, spell, or do simple arithmetic. The ongoing debasement of philosophy and ethics, and its social consequences, is a tangled tale. Those who would contend, with Wilhelm Wundt of Leipzig University in Germany, that history and its processes are responsible for the formation of individuals and their views (rather than the reverse) will undoubtedly find the approach in this book unpalatable; then again, not everyone would want this tale untangled. As I read this book my interest in the history of the Prussian-inspired American education and the use of it to support the books theme kept me turning pages to the end. Howerver, as the book progressed, the factual history it contains began to spring leaks, not from lack of accuracy in the history, but from within the hidden agenda of the book.
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