Educational Leadership for a Free World: Public School and Public Philosophy

PUBLIC education today is news. It is discussed in the press, on the radio, in our living rooms, and at our dining tables. Probably not since the time of Horace Mann have so many citizens had so much to say about the schools. It is as if the American people had decided to undertake a vast and searching reappraisal of their educational system, a reappraisal which is at the same time unsystematic and far-reaching in its consequences.