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Campbell F. Scribner. A is for Arson: A History of Vandalism in American Education Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023, 224 pp.

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Campbell F. Scribner. A is for Arson: A History of Vandalism in American Education Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023, 224 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

John Willinsky*
Affiliation:
Stanford University, CA, USA

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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of History of Education Society.

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1 One can catch sight of a Marcusean refusal of repression during this period with the British progressive school founder A. S. Neill, who reports telling a six-year-old, after hearing that she was planning to break more windows out of a dislike for “dictators” like him, “carry on.” Neill, A. S., Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood (New York: St. Martin’s, 1996), Google Scholar. My thanks to Scribner for sending me back to the Marcuse text cited above: Marcuse, Herbert, “Repressive Tolerance,” in Wolff, Robert Paul, Moore, Barrington, and Marcuse, Herbert, A Critique of Pure Tolerance (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), .Google Scholar

2 Scribner, Campbell F. and Warnick, Bryan R., Spare the Rod: Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021).CrossRefGoogle Scholar