Preamble Playing with Fire By Lewis H. Lapham The framework of American education holds fast to the ardent but mistaken belief that education is a commodity, the stuff that one pours into empty vessels. More
Essay Portraits of the Artist By Howard Singerman If today there is no longer any particular set of skills that must be learned in order for one to make art, how does one become an artist? More
Voices In Time 1983 | Washington, DC Rising Tide of Mediocrity America is losing its competitive edge.More
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. —Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878
