Irene’s Reviews > Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School > Status Update

"Run a school like a factory, and you will get uneven goods."

"Working hard with a teacher, or any mentor, is masochistic. It is especially so for adolescents, whose vulnerability and inexperience are attenuated."

"Decency denotes satisfaction of a widely understood and accepted standard and, as such, it is limited. going beyond such a threshold standard- that is, seeing schools on a course to turn out philosopher-kings or moral revolutionaries- is as repugnant as it would be impossible."

keeps mentioning Jerome Bruner and John Dewey... and I know exactly what he's talking about!

"David Seeley sadly sums up his view: 'Education has become a massive process for producing passive minds.'"

"The hungry student has critical radar, the ability to spot the inaccurate, meretricious, or inane. At his or her best, the hungry student is the constructively skeptical student."

"High school is a kind of secular church, a place of national rituals that mark stages of a young citizen's life." had to borrow this from the ou library...