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Permissible Advantage? The Moral Consequences of Elite Schooling Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education Joel Spring, Editor Spring • The Cultural Transformation of a Native American Family and Its Tribe 1763–1995 Reagan • Non-Western Educational Traditions: Alternative Approaches to Educational Thought and Practice Peshkin • Places of Memory: Whiteman's Schools and Native American Communities Spring • Political Agendas for Education: From the Christian Coalition to the Green Party Nespor • Tangled Up in School: Politics, Space, Bodies, and Signs in the Educational Process Weinberg • Asian-American Education: Historical Background and Current Realities Books (Ed.) • Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools Shapiro/Purpel (Eds.) • Critical Social Issues in American Education: Transformation in a Postmodern World, Second Edition Lipka/Mohatt/The Ciulistet Group • Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup'ik Eskimo Examples Benham/Heck • Culture and Educational Policy in Hawai'i: The Silencing of Native Voices Spring • Education and the Rise of the Global Economy Pugach • On the Border of Opportunity: Education, Community, and Language at the U.S.-Mexico Line Hones/Cha • Educating New Americans: Immigrant Lives and Learning Gabbard (Ed.) • Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: Politics and the Rhetoric of School Reform Glander • Origins of Mass Communications Research During the American Cold War: Educational Effects and Contemporary Implications Nieto (Ed.) • Puerto Rican Students in U.S. Schools Benham/Cooper (Eds.) • Indigenous Educational Models for Contemporary Practice: In Our Mother's Voice Spring • The Universal Right to Education: Justification, Definition, and Guidelines Reagan • Non-Western Educational Traditions: Alternative Approaches to Educational Thought and Practice, Second Edition Peshkin • Permissible Advantage?: The Moral Consequences of Elite Schooling DeCarvalho • Rethinking Family-School Relations: A Critique of Parental Involvement in Schooling Borman/Stringfield/Slavin (Eds.) • Title I: Compensatory Education at the Crossroads Roberts • Remaining and Becoming: Cultural Crosscurrents in an Hispano School Meyer/Boyd (Eds.) • Education Between State, Markets, and Civil Society: Comparative Perspectives Permissible Advantage? The Moral Consequences of Elite Schooling Alan Peshkin Stanford University LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS Mahwah, New Jersey London Copyright © 2001 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, retrieval system, or any other means, without prior written permission of the publisher. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 10 Industrial Avenue Mahwah, NJ 07430 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. Cover art by Danny Silverman Cover design by Kathryn Houghtaling Lacey Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Peshkin, Alan. Permissible advantage?: the moral consequences of elite schooling/Alan Peshkin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8058-2466-9 (alk. paper)— ISBN 0-8058-2467-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Preparatory schools—Moral and ethical aspects—United States. 2. Preparatory schools—United States—Case studies. I. Title. LC58.4.P58 2000 373.2'22–dc21 00–037615 CIP ISBN 1-4106-0604-X Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-8058-2466-9 (Print Edition) Copyright © 2008/2009 Mobipocket.com. All rights reserved. Reader's Guide This ebook has been optimized for MobiPocket PDA. Tables may have been presented to accommodate this Device's Limitations. Table content may have been removed due to this Device's Limitations. Image presentation is limited by this Device's Screen resolution. All possible language characters have been included within the Font handling ability of this Device. To my battalion To say that the human condition is moral before it is or may be anything else means…that whether we choose it or not, we confront our situation as a moral problem and our life choices as moral dilemmas. What follows is that we bear moral responsibilities… —Zygmunt Bauman (1995, p. 2) Contents Preface 1 A Moral Outlook 2 Circumstances of Education 3 Judgments for Excellence 4 The Goodness of Teachers 5 The Goodness of Students 6 Privilege 7 American Values References Author Index Subject Index
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