(2005-11-03) School Criticisms From The Left

David Skinner on critique of the Systems of Educating Kids from the Liberal direction: Ivan Illich, Paul Goodman, BillAyers, Marshall McLuhan, Charles Reich. History has not been kind to Illich or Goodman. Diane Ravitch dismissed their work in her history of School Reform, The TroubledCrusade, as a literary sensation... Yet many of Illich’s and Goodman’s arguments foreshadowed criticism later taken up by School Choice advocates on the Right.