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〈 The School Edition
〈 Intellectual Espionage
〈 Looking Behind Appearances
〈 The Sudbury Valley School
〈 Bootie Zimmer
〈 False Premises
〈 A System Of State Propaganda
〈 The Ideology Of The Text
〈 The National Adult Literacy Survey
〈 Name Sounds, Not Things
〈 The Meatgrinder Classroom
〈 The Ignorant Schoolmaster
〈 Frank Had A Dog; His Name Was Spot
〈 The Pedagogy of Literacy
〈 Dick And Jane
The deeds were monstrous, but the doer [Adolf Eichmann]....was quite ordinary, commonplace,
and neither demonic nor monstrous. There was no sign in him of firm ideological convictions or of
specific evil motives, and the only notable characteristic one could detect in his past behavior as
well as in his behavior during the trial...was something entirely negative; it was not stupidity but
thoughtlessness.... Might not the problem of good and evil, our faculty for telling right from wrong,
be connected with our faculty for thought
– Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind
The School Edition
I always knew schoolbooks and real books were different. Most kids do. But I remained vague on any particular
grounds for my prejudice until one day, tired of the simple-minded junior high school English curriculum, I decided
to teach Moby Dick to eighth-grade classes. A friendly assistant principal smuggled a school edition into the book
purchases and we were able to weigh anchor the next fall.
What a book! Ishmael, the young seaman who relates Melville's tale, is a half-orphan by decree of Fate, sentenced
never to know a natural home again. But Ahab is no accidental victim. He has consciously willed his own exile from
a young wife and child, from the fruits of his wealth, and from Earth itself in order to pursue his vocation of getting
even. Revenge on the natural order is what drives him.