[Ohiogift] Elitism

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I highly recommend In Defense of Elitism by William A. Henry III.  

It will make everyone think about egalitarianism and elitism.  

Nadine

 
---- Craig Kathryn via Ohiogift <ohiogift at lists.osu.edu> wrote: 
> Good Morning, Will!
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> I certainly appreciate the quote quote you shared, today!
> Spot on, in my world!
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> Kathryn E. Craig
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> Roxboro Elementary School
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> Bertrand Russell, after his first disastrous experiment in organizing a school, observed that the first task of education is to destroy the tyranny of the local and immediate over the child’s imagination.
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> “Elitism” is making the best form of education available to only a few. The democratic ideal of education is to make the best form of education available to all. The democratic ideal is not achieved, and elitism is not defeated, by making the best form of education available to almost nobody.
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> Kieran Egan, “Social Studies and the Erosion of Education” (excerpts)
> Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
> Children’s Minds, Talking Rabbits & Clockwork Oranges
> Teachers College Press, 1999, pp. 131-146
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> Will Fitzhugh