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This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format.Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship. ... Read more

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Brimming with honestly and passion, The Education of a WASP chronicles one white woman's discovery of racism in 1960s America. First published in 1970 and highly acclaimed by reviewers, Lois Stalvey's account is as timely now as it was then. Nearly twenty years later, with ugly racial incidents occurring on college campuses, in neighborhoods, and in workplaces everywhere, her account of personal encounters with racism remains deeply disturbing. Educators and general readers interested in the subtleties of racism will find the story poignant, revealing, and profoundly moving. ... Read more

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Outstanding book!
This is the best book about race I have ever read written by a white person.Stalvey's memoir of her personal relationships with black people during the 1960's when our country was finally beginning to come to terms with its deep-seated racism is both inspiring and enlightening.Not only does she discuss race, she delves into other kinds of prejudice and how important it is for each of us to examine where our prejudices come from if we are ever to move beyond them.I recommend this book to anyone who doesn't think we have a race problem in this country, for even though decades have passed since its initial publication, we still have a long way to go to resolve the schism racism has cut into our national psyche.

Education of a WASP
I purchased this book for my teenage daughter to add to her homeschooling summer reads. I had read the book for a Diversity class in college and personally think it is a book that should be read by everyone. She is very interested in equality, diversity and acceptance, so I know this book will be a page-turner as well as an eye-opener for her. Knowing that it is a "true story" just adds to the amazing read that this book is. If you have any wonders or interests in segregation, equal treatment for all humans, or just want an intersting character study to read, this book is exactly what you're looking for!!

A Great Awakening !
This book deserves ten stars! I am at a loss to adequately praise it. One of the most intelligent and insightful tomes on racism. First published in 1970 it is even more relevant today.

Who can deny that the failures of the past are still haunting us today? Stalvey's work in 1970 gives great insight into the frustration and unrest of the 60's and forty years later the continuing problems can be seen as a result of society's failure to properly address them.

I was reared with racial prejudices and still deal with them daily. I wish I had read this book in high school or college in the 70's. I could have progressed so much more in my understanding than I have.

An excellent companion to this book is James Loewen's Sundown Towns. Also his book Lies My Teacher Told Me and Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

One of my favorite books - REALLY
Maybe it's because I grew up in Mount Airy (the setting for most of the book) and I take pride in being the product of such a unique place, but I enjoyed this book thoroughly.Interestingly, I saw a news recap of the protest march for the Jena 6 tonight, where well-tanned white anchorman interviewed the highschool football coach, who had no idea that there were ratial tensions in his town - "there's no rule that says they can't go to our church, they just don't want to" - RIGHT... This book touches on the ingrained bigotry of white suburbia in the 50's (not that it's come so far) and the tenssions in more-urban Philadelphia surrounding the process of "white flight," which was occuring in urban communities nation-wide.It's notable however that this story probably would never have been written if the author had moved even a few miles away to west Philadelphia where the racial make-up of the neighborhoods were almost completely turned over (and where another turnover has been ongoing for a decade or so).It is a testament, not only to the author but many of her neighbors who chose to stay that Mount Airy is considered one of the first successfully integrated communities in America, having been noted for this in Oprah's magazine (bette late than never) and US News & Word Report.Anyone interested in learning about mid-century "white flight" and the undercurrent oooof racism in America in general will find this book and the community described to be a welcome stand-out.

Everyone should read this
I read this book for a Diversity in the Workplace class I took at college.I can never tell you how much it opened my eyes.Being married to a black man and having bi-racial children didn't teach me as much as this book did. If you have the time and the inclination, please read this book.The only draw back is the price.Using it for a textbook has given the sellers a license to charge as much as they can on it.And it is a shame because more people should read this but they can't afford to buy it. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Publisher: Madison, Wis.Publication date: 1907Subjects: University of WisconsinNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Publisher: Madison : Democrat printing companyPublication date: 1902Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Popular fiction continues to be the object of both academic and political interest as educators seek to understand the role literacy plays in constructing the gender, class, race, ethnic, age, sexual and national subjectivites of youth. This book focuses on the role of teen romance fiction in the construction and reconstruction of femininity internationally. Developed in the United States amid the conservative political restoration of Reganism, teen romance fiction condenses and articulates the long standing fears and resentments of conservative groups regarding feminism and women's growing independence and political power. Drawing on multidisciplinary approaches from cultural studies and feminist theories, psychoanalysis, semiotics, reader research, and critical theory, these essays signal the complexity of the world wide teen romance novel phenomenon and the political character of women's literacy. The book is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of literacy, women's studies, sociology of education and cultural studies. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Massive Scholarly Undertaking
This book is a massive scholarly overview of education in ancient Greek, Roman, and early Christian cultures, from 1000BC to 500AD.It is divided into 3 main sections: Origins of Classical Education from Homer to Isocrates, Classical Education in the Hellenistic Age, and Classical Education and Rome.The first section describes Greek education from very early times, going as far back as Homer.This section includes discussion of Spartan education and the role of military training and sport in education, pederasty in early Greek education, and education at the time of Plato and Isocrates.The second section explores classical Greek education in greater detail, focusing on the subjects that were studied, namely,physical education, artistic education (especially music and rhetoric), and science.It also discusses educational institutions, primary schools, secondary schools, and higher education.We learn about methods of teaching reading in ancient Greece, classroom atmosphere and discipline, and the lowly station of teachers in Greek society.

In the third section, Marrou details how Greek methods and topics of education were adopted by Roman society, with some differences and modifications.For example, the Romans had very little use for physical education, whereas physical education had formed a core element of Greek education.Another difference was the status given to teachers; in Roman society, teachers were well-respected and many used the teaching profession as a stepping stone to gain high political appointments.Paralleling the topics of the second section, this section includes information about the subject areas studied and the institutions were education took place.This section also includes shorter descriptions of topics, institutions, and methods of education during early Christian times, Byzantine education, and monastic education up to the Carolingian Renaissance.

This is a massive scholarly undertaking.Ancient sources are analyzed throughout the text; footnotes referring to these sources appear on almost every page.End material includes a large section of additional notes, references, and an index.The book contains information about an enormous range of topics, from the origins of rhetoric, to the ancient Greek modes in music, to rules of ancient Greek wrestling and the first Olympic games.In his introduction, Marrou makes some general observations about education that are well worth pondering, "Education is a collective technique which a society employs to instruct is youth in the values and accomplishments of the civilization within which it exists....A civilization must achieve its true form before it can create the education in which it is reflected."He discusses the education of girls as well as boys.

The book is not easy reading.The text is sprinkled liberally with Greek words that are neither translated nor transliterated-a basic familiarity with the Greek alphabet would be a very useful asset for readers of this book. Marrou also assumes that the reader has a thorough grounding in classical literature and the history of the ancient Greeks.Sentences like "Everyone knows the set-back which Plato's ambition received from the final defeat of the reactionary aristocracy to which he belonged" aboundin this book.If you are a little hazy on the details of Plato's ambitions, or have perhaps never even heard of them, you may have a tough time getting through this text because Marrou doesn't slow down to explain.Marrou's style of writing is very much in accordance with European academic style; that is, he peppers the text with numerous factoids that have little bearing on the main points but serve mainly to show that his knowledge of this topic and related ones goes far beyond what he has chosen to focus on here.This style can be somewhat annoying for readers more used to straight-forward writing.Nevertheless, the book is so informative that even casual readers are bound to find something of interest in it.

An Historic Work Of History
Walk down the Boulevard St. Michel in Paris, past walls pitted with bullet holes, marked by plaques commemorating Resistance fighters from WW II. Stop on a stone bench beneath the massive stone walls of the Sorbonne. Or take the narrow streets up to the Pantheon temple to the great men of France (the first woman elected to it was Marie Curie in 1995). Who lived in this already-ancient and recently bullet-ridden carved-stone world in 1948?Well, Henri Irénée Marrou, for one.

Marrou was a great product of French education and a great thinker on it. What he says of studying the Greeks, we can as well say of studying him today: "The fecundity of historical knowledge lives above all in the dialogue it creates in us between the Same and the Other". (I hope you did not think that "the Same and the Other" were postmodern ideas. The phrase is already in Plato's Timaeus.)

Present and past illuminate each other. Hitler's Germany teaches us not to naively admire the militarist slave-state of Sparta. Other ancient examples were just the thing, in 1948, to "reanimate the flame of liberty in the hearts of the young". Here is tremendous erudition aiming at the love of freedom. Not a bad idea today either.

This book is a history of Greek education and is still frequently cited. No more recent study seems to have supplanted it yet and none seem to still be in print. For the content of the book you can look into it here at amazon.com.

The French history I stress is mostly found in the introduction but for Marrou it is all our history. If you read the book in French (you can get it at amazon.fr) you will feel like you are in Paris, indeed an austere post-war Paris which no longer exists.But that is not necessary. Read it in any language to learn something of:

"Wisdom---this admirable word which we have forgotten and which the example of the ancients may help us to recover." ... Read more

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Voices and Votes interweaves history and civics, providing a comprehensive overview of state, tribal, and local governance in Wisconsin.The accompanying teacher's guide by Bobbie Malone encourages students to compare and contrast historical circumstances with current events, so that young learners come to understand both the differences and the continuities in our evolving democratic society. ... Read more

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An informative study of historical happenings and significant landmarks in Wisconsin's political evolution
Expertly researched and co-authored by Johnathan Kasparek and Bobbie Malone, Voices And Votes: How Democracy Works In Wisconsin is an informed and informative study of historical happenings and significant landmarks in Wisconsin's political evolution. Knowledgeably offering an extensive compendium for young readers to learn from, Voices And Votes grants a comprehensive and thorough analysis of the history and civics of Wisconsin's state, tribal, and local governments. Voices And Votes is very strongly recommended reading material for students and adults for its invaluable, "reader friendly" format providing an accessible reference for Wisconsin's political history. Part of the "Badger History" series from the Wisconsin Historical Society, No Wisconsin school or community library should be without at least one copy of Voices & Votes: How Democracy Works In Wisconsin.
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A work specifically written to encourage research into multicultural education and to help researchers work through some of the inherent problems that face schools with mulicultural students. ... Read more

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In uniting theory on and practice in the use of Spanish for persons whose home language is Spanish, the editors demonstrate the role played by home languages in cognitive and social development. This book should suprise traditional instructors, and may inspire new teachers, and perhaps bring students to recognize that they can use their linguistic and cultural resources to expand their knowledge of Spanish. The clearly presented approaches covered include linguistics, anthropological, sociological, foreign language and pedagogical and, importantly, the book brings together a number of pedagogical issues from the use of computers to the use of co-operative approaches to maximise the effective teaching and learning of Spanish by Spanish speaking persons.; This book is designed to overcome the difficulties faced by Spanish students and teachers when coping with bilingualism, code-switching, the use of dialects, language learning in art classes, computing and writing composition, the organization of the curriculum and initial training of teachers who work with native speakers of Spanish. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more