recommended by author of Troublemakers

"Schools for young people in poverty are marvelously successful at teaching about the scarcity of resources, arbitrariness of authority, and shunting of joy to peripheries that characterize the society they are actually growing up into As a species, we hardly need to go out of our way at all to make sure that each caste develops the skills and abilities they will need to perform their caste function. It is merely human to help the young grow up this way.
What is difficult is helping the young grow up into a society that does not yet exist. For this problem, imagination and creativity are required, and there are many opponents to the attempt. We must act as we would if the young were growing up into a different society, not this one. Acting methodically in such a way means creating a small society that makes sense to grow up in with its own terms, collaborative norms, and cooperative ways." (134) ( )