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The Night is Dark and I Am Far from Home: A Political Indictment of the US Public Schools

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An early version of the manuscript was published in a limited edition as a CIDOC CUARDENO #88, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1974. Kozol, author of Rachel & Her Children: Homeless Families in America, offers an absorbing analysis of the ethical crisis confronting our culture. Kozol writes that school is a consumer fraud: it advertises education but offers indoctrination. Its function isn't to educate humane & decent people, but safe citizens, manageable voters, manipulable consumers, &, in case of war or crisis, willing killers.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Release: September 01, 1975

ISBN 13: 9780826400086

The Night is Dark and I Am Far from Home: A Political Indictment of the US Public Schools

4/5 ( ratings)

An early version of the manuscript was published in a limited edition as a CIDOC CUARDENO #88, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1974. Kozol, author of Rachel & Her Children: Homeless Families in America, offers an absorbing analysis of the ethical crisis confronting our culture. Kozol writes that school is a consumer fraud: it advertises education but offers indoctrination. Its function isn't to educate humane & decent people, but safe citizens, manageable voters, manipulable consumers, &, in case of war or crisis, willing killers.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Release: September 01, 1975

ISBN 13: 9780826400086

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