Educational Wisdom?

                                                                                                                                                               Vol. XXIII, No. 7, August 2010

"Nothing we know of human development, of educational methodology, of the nature of sixteen-year-olds and their needs, would lead us to believe in the educational wisdom of depositing a thousand of them in one place, for seven hours, with minimal adult interaction. Some years ago, Ivan Illich declared that if we did not already have schools and classrooms, no one would invent them." Thomas H. Naylor (professor emeritus of economics at Duke University) and William H. Willimon (dean of the chapel and professor of Christian ministry at Duke University) in an essay entitled “Downsizing American Education” adapted from their book, Downsizing the U.S.A., Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1997. Appeared in Family Policy, Volume 11, Number 5, September-October 1998, "Where Public Education Went Wrong", Family Research Council. http://www.frc.org 800/225-4008.