I have completed a draft of my next book called “Confessions of a School Reformer.” The first part of the Introduction to the book follows.
Just see wherever we peer into the first tiny springs of the national life, how this true panacea for all of the ills of the body politic bubbles forth—education, education, education.
Andrew Carnegie, 1886[i]
School houses do not teach themselves – piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
W.E.B. DuBois, 1903[ii]
At the desk where I sit in Washington, I have learned one great truth: The answer for all our national problems comes down to one single word: education
President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964[iii]
[E]ducation is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little CONTINUE READING: Americans’ Secular Faith in Schooling (Part 1) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice