God Schooling: How God Intended Children to Learn

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It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians and, although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you. Footnote 92 Much of what is recognizably non-white about knowledge production, teaching, and learning in American higher education is the result of activism by students, families, faculty, and communities of color. Footnote 87 Charles Mills offered a similarly withering critique of the field of philosophy; critical race theorists have exploded the field of law and legal studies. Footnote 51 Historians once focused on the efficiency of this process, but the important point is not whether white settlers did it well, but that they did it at all—creating incalculable harm to Indigenous people for the benefit of schooling as a white good.

As white Americans developed and then expanded their schooling practices, they used schooling as a means to hobble Black and brown children as members of society—both in terms of limiting their access to academic development and credentials acquisition, and in terms of their access to skills development.Neem, Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2017); Hogan, “. Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Growth of Public Primary Schooling in the United States,” Journal of Economic History 69, no. The kinds of teens who are willing to go against the grain by taking an unpopular religious view are also the kinds of teens who are curious and self-driven. Rury and Aaron Tyler Rife, “Race, Schools and Opportunity Hoarding: Evidence from a Post-War American Metropolis,” History of Education 47, no. Our site uses cookies to keep track of how often you visit our site, previous purchases and to deliver content specific to your interests.

In interviews, religious teens over and over mention life goals of parenthood, altruism and serving God – priorities that I argue make them less intent on attending as highly selective a college as they could.Non-whites have succeeded in using many of these aspects of schooling too, but at greater cost, with greater precarity, and at greater risk.

That white goods are designed to benefit white people does not mean, of course, that they cannot be useful to non-whites. Economists, sociologists, and historians of education hold up schooling as the single most important factor in social mobility—indeed, one economist recently penned a guest essay for the New York Times declaring that “schooling is for mobility,” touting more schooling as the obvious solution for Black poverty.The point is that relative school attainment, on the aggregate, has remained quite unequal for the targets of whiteness: brown and especially Black children. The most influential work toward a theory of white goods comes from scholars in law and economics, including Robert Cooter and Daria Roithmayr. which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.