Word: cremin
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With the nation's attention focused on the reports of the Department of Education and on the theories of scholars like Alan Bloom, Cremin said he believes this is the time for such a debate...
...primary message of Bloom's book, The Closing of the American Mind, is that "education in its true meaning is an elite phenomenon," since "wide distribution [of it] becomes tantamount to [its] devaluation," Cremin said...
...Cremin finds the true crisis in the American educational system to be "a crisis in balancing [the] tremendous variety of demands" and responsibilities that the public places on the schools, while the children themselves, "with their almost infinite variety of needs, wants, and values," are ignored...
Though America's system of popular education "is in its very nature fraught with difficulties and the institutions we have established to achieve it are inevitably flawed," Cremin said it remains "one of the most radical ideas in the Western world." In his upcoming lectures, Cremin plans to continue to "explore some of these problems and what they [mean] to education in our time...
...Cremin won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for his book, American Education: The National Experience...