Education and Ecstasy
by George Leonard
Leonard's 1968 vision of learning as joy, with a critique of factory schooling and a utopian school of 2001. Historically important in alternative-education circles.
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Three things you will actually use
- Learning should be joyful.
- Schools were built for compliance.
- Visions age; questions stay.
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1968 vision.
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