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Direct linkGrant, Barry – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2005
The aim of this paper is to induce doubt about the ethical rightness of compulsory education laws and inspire educators to imagine and begin to make a world in which there are many different forms of gifted education. The paper does this in three ways. It paints a polemical picture of gifted education as a minor variation on public schooling and…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Public Schools, Educational History, Children
