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My husband found this article today and got really excited about
it. This is *not* light reading, save it for when you have a little
time. This is a little history on Albert Jay Nock and his ideas.
Laura Humphrey
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Noch
on Education
Born in the early 1870s, he witnessed the severe societal changes resulting from
world wars, revolutions in ideology and the spinning-out of political
measures that had often been passed decades before. He watched with
particular concern as American schools abandoned classical education in favor of
the less disciplined
liberal arts approach favored by John Dewey and his followers. Nock charted
what he saw as the disastrous consequences to American society of democratizing
education. In doing so, he opposed one of the most popular trends of the
early Twentieth century: mass education.
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