Use of Explosive Ideas in Education: Culture, Class, and Evolution

One of the leading educational philosophers of the twentieth century, Theodore Brameld helped pioneer the idea that education can be used to transform society for the better. He believed that schools should help the individual not only to develop socially but to learn how to be responsible citizens as well.

In this classic work, first published in 1965, Brameld presents three "explosive ideas" that should be at the very center of the school curriculum: culture, class, and evolution. With war...