THE FUTURE OF TEACHING

In 1960, the distinguished American colonial historian Bernard Bailyn published a small essay that deeply influenced the manner in which an entire generation of social and intellectual historians came to think about education. EntitledEducation in the Forming of American Society,the essay argued for a view of education that now seems to be very much a commonplace, namely that education should not be reduced to “schooling” but that it should instead be regarded as “the entire process by which a culture transmits itself across the generations.”¹ Having argued with characteristic subtlety for this latter view, Bailyn proceeded to show