This monograph is published to achieve the critical focus that is necessary in efforts to restore the grand old institution of public education to the revered status it used to enjoy and which it so richly deserves because it is so basic to all our other societal institutions. This monograph is a condensation and refinement of the author’s frenzied efforts to assess the relationship between the mounting disarray in our social order and the mounting problems in public education. While that relationship is very complex and the prevailing sentiment seems to be confused as to whether the fault lies in the schools or society as a whole, the monograph makes a strong case that the schools can be the focal point for remediation regardless of where the blame lies.
