Since I am still working on a big projet (about our recent syrup sopping day out) and it's going to be a while before I get it finished I wanted to share a short em I got on my local HS loop. I don't have to worry about high school yet but I am always interested in learning things that are even a few short (sniff, sniff) years down the road.

 From:
Thomas Hine, Teeenager>, Avon Books, Copyright 1999 by
Thomas Hine, pp.163-166.

"Increasingly, educators believed their role was not
solely, or even primarily, to impart knowledge. The
high school, they said, served the community by taking
substantial responsibility for every aspect of the
student's life, in and out of the classroom. ... Many
schoolmen said that what the school ought to do is to
develop character, but what they meant by character
was itself undergoing a rapid transformation. It was
less a matter of personal integrity than of being a
good team player. The purpose of schooling, said
Newark, New Jersey, superintendent Addison Poland
in 1913, is 'not individuality but social unity ... unity
which results in efficiency and is rarely, or never,
obtained except by and through uniformity of some
kind.' He added, 'Children must be taught to live and
work together cooperatively; to submit their individual
wills to the will of the majority; and to conform to social
requirements whether they approve of them or
not.' "