The Amish and Compulsory Education.

Holliday, Albert E.

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ERIC Number: EJ056510

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Publication Date: 1972

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The Amish and Compulsory Education

Holliday, Albert E.

Pennsylvania Education, 3, 3, 6-10, Jan 72

Article describes how the Amish resist modern education for a religious reason and fear the loss of their cohesive spiritual tradition, but the government wishes to impose compulsory high school education upon them. (Author/MM)

Descriptors: Amish, Board of Education Policy, Compulsory Education, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Modernism, Religious Cultural Groups, Rural Education, Traditional Schools

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