The Politics Of Schooling

Each year the child is coming to belong more and more to the state, and less and less to the parent.[p.82 →]

— Ellwood P. Cubberley, Conceptions of Education(1909)

It is natural that businessmen should devote themselves to something besides business; that they should seek to influence the enactment and administration of laws, national and international, and that they should try to control education and to supplant religion as the definer of ideals.[p.38 →]

— Max Otto, Science and the Moral Life (1949)

Most people don’t know who controls American education because little attention has been given the question by either educators or the public. Also because the question is not easily or neatly answered.[p.11 →]

— James D. Koerner, Who Controls American Education? (1968)