Status Updates From Anti-Intellectualism in Ame...

"As soon as the inherited notion of learning as a leisure-class activity is discarded, the style of education it represented also falls under question...Academic and scholastic, instead of being titles of honor, are becoming terms of reproach."

"In the name of utility, democracy, and science, many educators had
come to embrace the supposedly uneducable or less educable child as
the center of the secondary-school universe, relegating the talented
child to the sidelines.... This group has indeed been neglected by many educators and looked upon...as a deviant, a side issue, a special problem, at times even a kind of pathology."

"We cannot know, of course, how much impact the content of school
readers had on the minds of children. But any child who accepted
the attitudes prevalent...would have come to think of
scholarship and the fine arts as embellishments identified with the
inferior society of Europe, would have thought of art primarily with
regard to its services to nationality...[and] its contributions to character."

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"Until 1830, most teachers had been men...opponents of women teachers were still to be heard in many communities, but they were often easily silenced when it was pointed out that women teachers could be paid one third or one half as much as men."

"The belief in mass education was not founded primarily upon a passion for the development of mind, or upon pride in learning and culture for their own sakes, but rather upon the supposed political and economic benefits of education."

"There is a type of alienation which is simply personal, which arises from the education and in some cases the personal culture of the expert. He is out of place. He is not the right kind of man, he would not be sought after as a companion if his services weren't needed."