Education, Public Confidence and the Legitimacy of the Modern State: Is There a Crisis’ Somewhere?Footnote∗

∗ An earlier version of this paper was presented, under the title ‘Education and crisis: a note of concern’, to the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York (March 1982). A shorter version was published in Phi Delta Kappan (September 1982).

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