ANARCHY REVISITED: AN INQUIRY INTO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DILEMMA*
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ANARCHY REVISITED: AN INQUIRY INTO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DILEMMA* Page 1Journdo/LikrarrnnSludnr.Vol. 2 No.4 p p157 372 B amo on Prnr ad. 1978. Printed in meat Britain. ANARCHY REVISITED: AN INQUIRY INTO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DILEMMA* ROBERT H. CHAPPELL ProJessional Teacher Program University of Maine Public schooling has become a prodigious bureaucratic institution that operates as a rigorous maintenance system. Its function is to inculcate the masses with acceptable ideologies and to weed out dissenters whose recalcitrant behavior and spontaneity are viewed as dangerous to the democratic tenets of the United States. As compulsory attendance laws surfaced and were enacted the educational monolith became ever more securely entrench ed in American society. Public education has become a breakwater interrupting the dynamics of inquiry dissent and innovation which are essential to democracy and to the human condi tion. In light of the above it seems timely to reevaluate the historical critiques of public education that apparently have largely been ig nored misinterpreted and misconstrued. A revitalization and reexamination of the major criticisms of the 19th and 20th century anar chists could provide a catalyst which might revitalize the arrested development of American education and life. The major anarchist critics of education William Godwin Peter Kropotkin PierreJoseph Proudhon Mikhail Bakunin Francisco Ferrer Leo Tolstoy and Max Stirner all believ ed to varying degrees that man was essentially a benign creature with a potential for goodness. However they suggested that the habits and in stitutions of authority manifested in economics politics education and in some *The original version of this article was prepared for the Summer Research Seminar on the Opponents of Public Schooling held in New York City June August 1977 and sponsored by the Center for Independent Educat ...
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