"Once Upon a Time: A Fable of Student Power"

Title"Once Upon a Time: A Fable of Student Power"
Year for Search1970
AuthorsPostman, Neil(1931-2003)
Secondary TitleThe New York Times Magazine
Pagination6-7
Date PublishedJune 14, 1970
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Eutopia. Based on a passage in Henry David Thoreau's (1817-62) Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) about the need for students to live life rather than just studying, New York City removes students from school and puts them to work cleaning up and repairing the rundown city. Post-secondary students asked to participate and were added.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Futures Conditional. [Ed.] Robert Theobald (Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merril Co., 1972), 197-202.

Author Note

(1931-2003)

Full Text

1970 Postman, Neil (1931-2003). “Once Upon a Time: A Fable of Student Power.” The New York Times Magazine (June 14, 1970): 6-7. Rpt. in Futures Conditional. [Ed.] Robert Theobald (Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merril Co., 1972), 197-202.

Eutopia based on a passage in Henry David Thoreau’s (1817-62) Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) about the need for students to live life rather than just studying, New York City removes students from school and puts them to work cleaning up and repairing the rundown city. Post-secondary students are asked to participate and were added.