Philosophic conflicts in American education, 1893-2000 Book

Just finished my annual rereading of this book. Again, teachers in inner-city America, teachers on the plains, teachers in rural America--read or reread this book now. With attempts to oppress our students inside the classroom with more and more standardized crap, this is more than ever a must-read.

My original review:
Here is one of those books I think they oughtn't let a teacher in front of a secondary classroom without having read. Even the most affluent of our students in contemporary public education classrooms are oppressed to some degree. Oppression comes in many attractive wrappings. From the trite shite they are brainwashed to care about by the television, to the lies they hear about what their bodies must look like and what they must own to be somebody, I don't know how we ever humanize them anymore at all. Freire can be applied to every student...every classroom. Here was a man who was the real thing. A teacher. (May he rest...)