Word: antischool
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...great American faith in the necessity and efficacy of education has been extended to include universal access to college, virtually regardless of aptitude. That affirmation of the belief in self-improvement, if not human perfectibility, has now fallen on hard times. In its place is a wave of "antischool" feeling and growing questions about the worth of ever-lengthening periods of education for the masses. In no small part, this skepticism stems from the recession and the resulting difficulties young people have in finding jobs. It also grows out of continued failures to improve dramatically the lot of the "disadvantaged...
Philosopher Mortimer J. Adler, chairman of the board of editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, rejects the antischool trend. But he concedes there may be good reason for the rising disbelief in the ultimate educability of everyone. Undifferentiated schooling, writes Adler, may be "doomed to defeat by differences in the children's economic, social and ethnic backgrounds and especially differences in the homes from which they come...
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