She complains about being “singled out” as a Jew in Louisiana and then praises Mann’s intellectual roots in Massachusetts, where public schools were created in order to systematically impose Puritan orthodoxy on the population and to prevent the nefarious influence of popery among a people who had made it a hanging offense for a Jesuit to enter the commonwealth. Kamenetz worries that if students are educated outside of the state’s effective monopoly, then they may come into contact with religious or political views of which she disapproves. The consensus answer for the authors in the Times symposium is the state, though they almost never say so plainly.įor education reporter Anya Kamenetz, the schools are there to serve as Horace Mann’s “crucible of democracy.” Mann’s view (also Kamenetz’s view) is that schools are there to serve as homogenizing institutions - though, again, as with the statism, the conformism is rarely acknowledged. We might answer that by asking a different question: Whom is school for? “ What is school for?” asks the New York Times. It isn’t free, but it also isn’t very expensive. The Tuesday is available only to NRPlus members, as is lots of other good stuff, which is why you should sign up here. Welcome to the Tuesday, a weekly newsletter about language, culture, and politics, not necessarily in that order or, really, in any order.
A teacher works with students in a math class at Santa Fe South High School in Oklahoma City, Okla., September 1, 2021.
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