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That sounds very 1973. There was a period where a lot of post-Sixties rhetoric went drastically wrong, and you could get away with saying some off the deep end statements without seeming all that radical or even out of place. Everything was meant to be progressive and lead to a raising of consciousness, through a fresh way of thinking. Wipe the slate clean, because everything we did before must have been wrong. It was the precursor for Howard Zinn's People's History, the aftermath of communal living, and communal child raising and so you really did have a small group of teachers going into 1st grade classrooms and teaching Marx & Engels. It was also a big period for experiments in education, and going against the three goldren rules. I can't place exactly what psycho babble pop-psych school this might have came from, but it sounds like there's some of that too.

What's funny is that someone would take a qoutation that's obviously incredibly dated to another time when such a mindset was still thought of as new, and apply it to current issues, as if learning institutions are running around using this as their secret war cry. I mean, is there any sort of underground teacher movement happening today!? Not really. The System has incorporated every progressive experimental learning strategy they could shove into the budget. If anything I think we go out of our way to be progressive and we miss some of the basic moral lessons about community, and even patriotism.