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compulsory miseducation  

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  • Compulsory miseducation is word play on a concept that was long considered a pillar of progres-sivism: universal compulsory education. In order to participate in social and economic and political life, reformers argued over decades and decades, all children, not just the privileged, should be granted access to learning, and all families, not just the enlightened, should send their youngsters off to school. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Compulsory Miseducation]

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