We are missing a great opportunity. This is the Department of Education of the United States of America. Democracy without educated people is the fascist's dream. Quid pro quo is government as business, not as service. But they are so very right to understand education as having become soul-less.
Kids know that through their experience of it.
EFF, though it moves in the right direction, does not address the moral or spiritual dimensions of human living that constitute a fully educating person. It's a constitutive change, and willingness to do so. John Comings may be right that some confuse developing fundamental roles with content, but nor can we confuse roles with the more foundational seriousness of human being in history. EFF writers may not mean to, but in psychological terms, the language supports neurosis and a basic fragmentation and dissociation that has its proximate roots early in this century. There are signs in this culture of a great recovery of wholeness, but EFF does not lead this recovery.