Lucifer with a Book
"Education, boy, is not something to prepare you for life. That is a vulgar American error...It's something to take you out of life. Don't you want to have some small kingdom of your own that no one can take away from you?" Miss Sophia said it, and then she died. Eighty-one years later the...
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"Education, boy, is not something to prepare you for life. That is a vulgar American error...It's something to take you out of life. Don't you want to have some small kingdom of your own that no one can take away from you?" Miss Sophia said it, and then she died. Eighty-one years later the private school of her founding opens for a new semester. To it comes the young new t
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 340
Edition language: English
'Lucifer with a Book' follows a year at The Academy, a remarkable institution that was founded on the idea that education is a refuge for the mind and should be available to everyone. By the late 1940s, however, The Academy shows a disturbing shift towards conservatism of an almost fascist kind, bli...
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