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THE EDUCATIONAL MESSIAH COMPLEX
American Faith in the Culturally Redemptive Power of Schooling
Electronic Edition 2010 © NewFoundations
(Original Caddo Gap Press ISBN 1-880192-00-4 )
by Sanford W. Reitman
110 pages.
In The Educational Messiah Complex, Stanford Reitman debunks the unhealthy American expectation that schooling can solve all manner of social and economic problems and save the nation from perceived catastrophe.
He describes how this mirage energizes everything from No Child Left Behind to the charter school movement. Then Reitman explains why this expectation is false.
He argues that we must rid ourselves of this destructive delusion and focus, instead, on the realistically attainable. Then he offers “a doable, practical, publicly acceptable and democratic strategy for getting back on track.” First published in 1992, The Educational Messiah Complex is more relevant than ever.
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