AFTERWORD: Countering the Naysayers—Independent Writing Programs as Successful Experiments in American Education

We are conditioned by countless negative perspectives on American education, on the corrupt nature of our political institutions, on the bleak future for individual consciousness, on the failed experiment in nation-building that began a relatively brief two hundred years ago. Poets, novelists, histo...

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Hauptverfasser:	Burton, Larry W, Crow, Angela, O'Neill, Peggy
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Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	We are conditioned by countless negative perspectives on American education, on the corrupt nature of our political institutions, on the bleak future for individual consciousness, on the failed experiment in nation-building that began a relatively brief two hundred years ago. Poets, novelists, historians, philosophers, literary critics, educators, and many others have passed judgment on these situations as if they are permanent facts of existence without the possibility of improving themselves. For these critics, pessimism outweighs optimism. In almost any direction we turn, we hear voices of doom, none more gloomy than Allen Ginsberg’s. Writing in 1959, for example, he opens