Volume 55, Number 19 · December 4, 2008
The Message of the Schoolroom
By Alison Lurie
School
by Catherine Burke and Ian Grosvenor
London: Reaktion, 208 pp., $27.00 (paper; distributed in the US by University of Chicago Press)
Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Yale University Press, 256 pp., $26.00 (to be published in June 2009)
Teaching Boys and Girls Separately
an article by Elizabeth Weil
The New York Times Magazine, March 2, 2008
As the popular cliché suggests when it describes someone as the 'product of' a certain school or college, every educational institution, from a toddlers' playgroup to graduate school, is a kind of factory. The building may resemble a well-landscaped country mansion or a rundown warehouse, but its function is the same. The raw materials (students) enter it and most of the time they are somehow transformed into the type of person conventionally associated with the institution.
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