Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
The Continuing Crisis in American Education 1

PART I  VALUE SYSTEMS AND EDUCATION
1   Culture and the Value System 11
2   Cultural Pluralism in the United States 15
3   The American Value System 25
4   Learning 31
5   The Maturation of the World View 37

PART II  CULTURAL STYLES OF LIVING
6   Defining the Pre-Industrial Culture 43
7   Defining the Industrial Society 49
8   Stabilizing the Industrial Culture 55
9   Tensions Inherent in Industrial Culture 75
10   The Post-industrial Life Style 83

PART III  LOOKING FORWARD
11   Raising Children in the Post-industrial Age 95
12   The Need for a New Type of School 105
13   Transition Schools 109
14   Education Beyond Schools 115

A FINAL NOTE 119

APPENDIX A
Publications of The Sudbury Valley School Dealing with Educational Theory 121

APPENDIX B
A Brief Summary of the Theory of Organic Thinking, as Explained in the Words of its First Theoretician, Max Kadushin 125

APPENDIX C
The Role of Play at Sudbury Valley School 139