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Political Education - Benjamin R. Barber: An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and the Future of America, Ballantine Books, New York 1992, Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1994, 307 pp., Paperback $11.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

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1 The original view was propounded at book length in Politics, Markets, and America’s Schools, Washington DC, Brookings Institution, 1990. See also Chubb, J. and Moe, T., A Lesson in School Reform from Great Britain, Washington, Brookings Institution, 1992Google Scholar. An earlier libertarian collection can be found in Burleigh, Anne Husted (ed.), Education in a Free Society, Indianapolis, Liberty Press, 1973Google Scholar. The issue is reviewed in Bridges, D. and McLaughlin, T. H., Education and the Market Place, London, Falmer Press, 1994Google Scholar.

2 A similarly brief set of proposals which share a participatory orientation can be found in Steiner, David M., Rethinking Democratic Education: The Politics of Reform, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1994Google Scholar. The most comprehensive discussion remains Gutmann, Amy, Democratic Education, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1987Google Scholar.

3 Not the old British military service whose educative accomplishments were described in David Lodge’s novel Ginger, You’re Barmy.