Universal goals such as justice, self-actualization, openmindedness, and political efficacy should be the goals of schools, this writer believes. His article ranges widely in the philosophical realm but in no sense rejects the content of education. Concrete knowledge must share the limelight, however, with knowledge of the universal abstractions, he ex plains.
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