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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Four Fundamental Questions | |
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| Three Underlying Assumptions | |
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| Market Street and Monticello | |
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| Origins No Longer Matter | |
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| Different Purposes, Different Knowledge | |
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| How We Learn: Open-Mindedness | |
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| Who Is to Be Educated? | |
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| Jefferson's Dream and Ours | |
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| Different Times, Different Purposes | |
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| Who Is Left Out? Progress and Persistence | |
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| Founding Schools, Creating a Culture | |
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| A Theology for Schools | |
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| Schooling Will Save Us: Then and Now | |
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| Blind to the Needs of Those We Teach | |
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| Shaping a More Compassionate America | |
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| Learning from Our History | |
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| Sailing on the Pequod: Horace Mann | |
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| Fighting Immorality and Social Anarchy | |
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| From a "Common Faith" to a "Higher Purpose" | |
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| Individualism Amended | |
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| Sailing Alone in a Smaller Craft: Emerson | |
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| We Are the Children of Mann | |
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| Blindness and Understanding: Washington and Du Bois | |
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| Denying Reality | |
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| Selling Our Souls in the Marketplace | |
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| Invisible Man: Performance and Manipulation | |
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| Ignoring Du Bois: Then and Now | |
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| Finding Ourselves: A Different Path | |
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| Du Bois's Despair: No Easy Answers | |
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| Inquiry, Not Recipes: John Dewey | |
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| Rethinking American Individualism | |
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| Questioning What Knowledge Is of Most Worth | |
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| The Quality of the Learning Experience | |
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| Questioning Our Educational Aims | |
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| The Influence of John Dewey | |
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| Excellence and Opportunity in a Time of National Needs | |
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| Seizing the Democratic High Ground: Arthur Bestor | |
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| Study Hard or Live on the Fringes: Hyman Rickover | |
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| Excellence and Equality, Too: James Bryant Conant | |
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| Toning Up a Whole Society: John Gardner | |
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| Helping the Poor, Helping the Nation: Francis Keppel | |
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| American Nightmare/American Dream | |
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| Refusing the Pill | |
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| The Attack on the Schools: A Marxist Critique | |
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| The Schools Join the Revolution | |
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| Restoring the Dream: A Can-Do Attitude | |
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| High Expectations in Historical Perspective | |
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| A Political Consensus on Standards Reform | |
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| Extending the Language of American Individualism | |
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| American Individualism and Self-Deception | |
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| The Outsider in the Locker Room | |
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| Thinking Differently About Some Old Educational Questions | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Web Sites | |
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| Critical Writings | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |