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Friends of the Public Schools

The educationist hierarchy and the bureaucracy of the National Education Association coined a new devilterm a few years ago: “Bestorite.” A wicked Bestorite is an Enemy of the Public Schools, a person who adheres to the heretical view of Professor Arthur Bestor that, schools are primarily places for training intellects, and that intellects need to be trained in a democracy. It has been the pious hope of all loyal bureaucrats of NEA that the Bestorites might be bound hand and foot and cast into the outer darkness. But this world is full of pitfalls for the righteous; and lo, the Bestorites have multiplied and waxed fat, and now their name is legion. Or, rather, the name of their legion is the Council for Basic Education, incorporated last July.

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Friends of the Public Schools

The educationist hierarchy and the bureaucracy of the National Education Association coined a new devilterm a few years ago: “Bestorite.” A wicked Bestorite is an Enemy of the Public Schools, a person who adheres to the heretical view of Professor Arthur Bestor that, schools are primarily places for training intellects, and that intellects need to be trained in a democracy. It has been the pious hope of all loyal bureaucrats of NEA that the Bestorites might be bound hand and foot and cast into the outer darkness. But this world is full of pitfalls for the righteous; and lo, the Bestorites have multiplied and waxed fat, and now their name is legion. Or, rather, the name of their legion is the Council for Basic Education, incorporated last July.