> one thought: if you have some time, i'd highly recommend brint and
> karabel's _the diverted dream_. it's an excellent look at the
> vocationalization of schooling. b and k show how the dreams of manual
> laborers at the time were dreams of schooling in the liberal arts --
> education for the sake of education. those dreams were systematically
> diverted by an elite that was terrified of what might happen if such dreams
> ever came to fruition.
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=lPMrMOavWMUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA3