Public School and the Private Vision: A Search for America in Education and Literature Book

Series foreword   Herbert Kohl     ix
Foreword   Herbert Kohl     xi
Preface   Maxine Greene     xv
The Search Begins: Education, Literature, and the Dream     1
Enlightenment Ideals and "Common Men": From Jefferson to Mann     7
Transcendentalists, Utopians, and Reformers: The Challenge to "Establishment" and School     25
The "Balance Wheel" and the Public School Campaigns     44
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Peep-Hole" View     57
The Classroom at Walden Pond     73
Masses, Melting-Pots, and Monitors: "Rote" Teaching and Lancastrian Schools     83
"...High Time to Go to Sea...": Melville's Vision of America     92
The Songs of Selfhood: En Masse and the Ideal     106
The Predicaments of Freedom: The Negro, the Farmer, and Huck Finn     120
The Child and the Dynamo: Schooling in a "Gilded Age"     137
"...Tomorrow We Will Run Faster..."     153
Bibliography     165