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The City as Teacher: Historical Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Daniel Calhoun
Daniel Calhoun*
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University of California, Davis
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Fifteen years ago the songwriter John LaTouche turned the Odyssey on its head when he wrote the musical The Golden Apple. Instead of sending his returning veterans on an unfortunate tour of a primitive inland sea, he dropped them into a modern city, to experience the varieties of novelty and disillusionment. To the corrupting politician character who plotted these experiences, he gave the line, “The city itself will be our strategem.”

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Urban Education V
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , Fall 1969 , pp. 312 - 325
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Copyright © 1969 by New York University 

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