David Brooks, an occasional guest columnist in the AJC, made this observation (12/5/06):
A generation ago, the gods of education fashion ordained that children should be liberated from desks-in-a-row pedagogy (teaching, jj) to follow their “natural” inclinations. In those days, human beings were commonly divided between their natural selves, assumed to be free and wonderful, and their socially constructed selves, assumed to be inhibited and repressed.