 Education and the Rise of the Corporate Statereviewed by Jack Fields - 1972  Title: Education and the Rise of the Corporate StateAuthor(s): Joel H. Spring Publisher: CIDOC, Cuernavaca ISBN: 0807031747, Pages: 234, Year: 1971 Search for book at Amazon.com School and society are inextricably linked. Amen. But what part of society do the schools really serve, and toward what clearly defined purposes are they aimed? The questions have been mulled over at length by a horde of theoreticians. What makes Professor Joel Spring's turgid but nevertheless provocative book important is his thesis: that a body of influential American progressive leaders helped to mold the image of a highly organized and smoothly working corporate structure as the model of the good society and, furthermore, that this image "played an influential role in shaping the form and direction of American public education in the twentieth century." If the thesis holds water, and he goes to considerable effort to document it, then despite profuse verbalisms about the sanctity of the individual, his felt needs, preparation for citizenship, etc., etc., the underlying reality glares like a red light —the purpose of our public schools is to prepare cooperative individuals, sifted out and conditioned like Huxley's Brave New Worlders for their respective... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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