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This book is a welcome contribution to the intellectual and social history of education....Highly recommended. -CHOICE Schooling, the Puritan Imperative, and the Molding of an American National Identity is an important contribution to the history of education and cirriculum studies. The book will also interest students and scholars in cultural studies, American studies, educational philosophy, sociology of education, and social foundations of education. -History of Education Quarterly. A serious and useful piece of work, carefully written and persuasively argued. It's major theme of the pervasive influence of Puritan thought on American culture builds on a well-established tradition of American scholarship. McKnight's unique contribution is to develop and elaborate this notion for the field of public education. Overall, I found his analyses and interpretations compelling, intriguing, and provocative....This is an honest and serious work focused on important issues, one that is extremely helpful to the scholarly study of education and American culture. -David Purpel University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The connections made between the Puritan errand into the wilderness and the present preoccupation with moral collapse and its interconnections with education confirms this well-argued, innovative text as an important contribution to the history of education/curriculum. -William M. Reynolds Georgia Southern University

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Douglas McKnight

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