The new issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Education, is now available. With original essays by Moudhy Al-Rashid, Ian Altman, Michael D. Hattem, Eleni Schirmer, and Paul Tough; Voices in Time contributions by Cassiodorus, Helen DeWitt, Elena Ferrante, Natalia Ginzburg, Julia Ward Howe, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Maria Montessori, Muriel Spark, Rabindranath Tagore, T.H. White, and Stefan Zweig; and art by Thomas Hart Benton, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, and others.
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Cover | Terracotta toy in the shape of a horse, Gallo-Roman, fifth century
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | Public Schools
Preamble | Paul Tough, Hearts and Minds
VOICES IN TIME
Morning Bell
2021: Chicago | Agnes Callard
1159: Canterbury | John of Salisbury
1924: Torquay | Rudolf Steiner
1791: Paris | Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
c. 1936: Suwa | Masuda Sayo
1917: Great Lakes | Mabel Powers
c. 1900: Berlin | Walter Benjamin
c. 1595: Navarre | William Shakespeare
1909: Radchester | Patrick Traherne
c. 1350: France | Commendation of the Clerk
c. 390 bc: Athens | Isocrates
1910: Atlanta | W.E.B. Du Bois
1980: Auckland | Dorothy Butler
c. 1005: Cerne Abbas | Aelfric
c. 1908: Paris | International League for the Rational Education of Children
1885: Eastern Cape | William Wellington Gqoba
c. 1556: Guatemala | Popol Vuh
1972: Honolulu | Mary Kawena Pukui, E.W. Haertig, and Catherine A. Lee
c. 1990: London | Helen DeWitt
c. 1100 bc: China | Liu Xiang
c. 1933: Yuma, AZ | Cesar Chavez
c. 540: Monte Cassino | Saint Benedict
1960: London | Natalia Ginzburg
Story Time
2021: Virginia | Garrett Epps
c. 1980: Vienna | Elfriede Jelinek
1177: Mount Hiei | The Tale of the Heike
1909: Rome | Maria Montessori
1966: Beijing | Aiping Mu
1258: Shiraz | Saadi
1901: Chicago | Louis Sullivan
c. 600 bc: Greece | Homeric Hymns
c. 1950: Appenzell | Fleur Jaeggy
1798: Stans | Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
1859: Springfield, IL | Abraham Lincoln
1872: Basel | Friedrich Nietzsche
c. 800: Mount Jishi | Kim Man-jung
c. 1900: New Haven, CT | Owen Johnson
c. 1495: Ingolstadt | Students’ Complaint
1882: Pune | Jotirao Phule
c. 985: Baghdad | Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi
2004: Helena, AR | Michelle Kuo
1827: Hartford, CT | Catharine Beecher
c. 1890: Vienna | Stefan Zweig
1903: Worpswede | Rainer Maria Rilke
1961: Havana | Fidel Castro
1931: Edinburgh | Muriel Spark
1442: Ferrara | Records of the City of Ferrara
1789: Jena | Friedrich Schiller
Homework
2022: San Francisco | Jeff Bryant
2022: New York City | Reddit
c. 1846: Rome | Julia Ward Howe
1919: Weimar | Walter Gropius
1901: Bengal | Rabindranath Tagore
c. 1200: Castle Sauvage | T.H. White
c. 1950: Pawarenga | Nikora Atama
1645: Kumamoto | Miyamoto Musashi
c. 1191: Fustat | Moses Maimonides
1968: Berkeley, CA | Afro-American Student Union
1966: Pisa | Elena Ferrante
806: Dazaifu | Kukai
1904: Chicago | Margaret Haley
c. 1943: Zipaquirá | Gabriel García Márquez
1741: London | Samuel Richardson
1977: Pyongyang | Kim Il-Sung
c. 533: Ravenna | Cassiodorus
1991: Chicago | Saul Bellow
1943: Hull | Philip Larkin
1538: Bruges | Juan Luis Vives
2021: Austin, TX | Texas House Bill 3979
1936: Karelia | Andrey Platonov
c. 142: Rome | Marcus Aurelius
c. 1000: Bianliang | Zhenzong
c. 1915: Nepenthe | Norman Douglas
c. 1983: Sheffield | Alan Bennett
c. 1950: Senegal | Cheikh Hamidou Kane
c. 1939: Harlem | Audre Lorde
1650: London | John Dury
FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
A Means to an End | Michael D. Hattem
Schoolboy, Where Are You Going? | Moudhy Al-Rashid
A Speculative Endeavor | Eleni Schirmer
Misdirectives | Ian Altman
Departments
Conversations | Mill, DeVos, Chinese Communist Party
Miscellany | Camelback Library, Meerkat Pups, African Gray
Endnote: School Bells | Lewis H. Lapham
Glossary | College Boy, Hooky, School Butter
Sources | Readings & Art