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Article: National education policy and popular education: a reconsideration of Cremin's the genius of American education.(Lawrence Cremin)
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- Journal of Thought
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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Lawrence Cremin delivered the Horace Mann lecture in 1965, an interesting moment in the political and social history of the United States. Allow me to set the context for a moment using some significant events from 1964 and 1965. At the University of California at Berkeley, Mario Savio had launched the Free Speech Movement which also reached many other campuses in subsequent years. On August 7, 1964--nineteen years and one day after Hiroshima had been destroyed by the first atomic bomb--the U.S. Congress adopted the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. President Lyndon Johnson ordered the build-up of troops in Viet Nam the following December. And, The Civil Rights Act of 1965 ...