Hoover Institution Stanford University "What we teach children can be a matter of life and death. Two pioneers of education confronted the power of indoctrination."
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"Kandel and Brickman had much in common. Both were historians, identified
strongly as Jews, and generated ideas on education that were shaped by firsthand experiences with international conflict, revolution, and discrimination. As prolific scholars, they advanced many of comparative education’s most important topics: how schools indoctrinate children, build national identities, strengthen or weaken democracy, and reduce or exacerbate ethnic and racial cleavages and gender and social class inequalities." By Erwin H. Epstein.
Brickman (photo)saw the effects of Nazism first-hand. Drafted in 1943, he spent part of his military service behind enemy lines in Germany—where he donned an SS uniform and served as a spy for the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA.
Via Victor Davis Hanson
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"Kandel and Brickman had much in common. Both were historians, identified
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strongly as Jews, and generated ideas on education that were shaped by firsthand experiences with international conflict, revolution, and discrimination. As prolific scholars, they advanced many of comparative education’s most important topics: how schools indoctrinate children, build national identities, strengthen or weaken democracy, and reduce or exacerbate ethnic and racial cleavages and gender and social class inequalities." By Erwin H. Epstein.
Brickman (photo)saw the effects of Nazism first-hand. Drafted in 1943, he spent part of his military service behind enemy lines in Germany—where he donned an SS uniform and served as a spy for the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA.
Via Victor Davis Hanson
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