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Sherman, Zander.
Education -- History.
Education -- Social aspects.
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The
curiosity
of
school
:
education
and the
dark
side
of
enlightenment
/ Zander Sherman.
by
Sherman, Zander.
Viking, c2012.
Call #:
370.9 S553c
Subjects
Education
-- History.
Education
-- Social aspects.
ISBN:
9780670066438
Description:
374 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
It's one thing we all have in common. We've all been to
school
. But as Zander Sherman shows in this fascinating, often shocking account of institutionalized
education
, sending your kids off to
school
was not always normal. In fact,
school
is a very recent invention.Taking the reader back to 19th-century Prussia, where generals, worried about soldiers' troubling individuality, sought a way to standardize every young man of military age, through to the most controversial debates about the topic of
education
today, Sherman tells the often astonishing stories of the men and women --and corporations --that have defined what we have come to think of as both the privilege and the responsibility of being educated. With clarity, detachment, and wry humour, Sherman presents the story of
school
through the stories of its most influential --and peculiar --reformers. We learn that Montessori schools were embraced by Mussolini's Italy, that the founder of Ryerson University was a champion of the Canadian residential
school
system (for which the government apologized a century and a half later), and that Harvard was once a byword for mediocrity.
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