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This 4 page paper discusses possible ways of building a utopia. It also touches on theories of utopia advanced in the past, and argues that such a society is impossible to build. Bibliography lists 3 sources
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to create a utopia: everyones idea of what it is, is different. For some people, a utopia would be a society in which no one ever had to work again,
while others would be hopelessly lost without meaningful employment. Some people want to lie on a beach, others want to climb mountains. It seems logical to assume that utopia has
to be something deeper than this; perhaps something dealing with more fundamental human values such as peace, equality and justice. In 1956, an article in Time suggested that education might
be the key to developing a utopian society. The article says that "four major philosophies" dominate education: perennialism, essentialism, progressivism, and reconstructionism, which comes from the other three (How to
create Utopia, 1956). Perennialists believe that the duty of education is to inculcate "everlasting, timeless and spaceless principles of reality, truth and value" (How to create Utopia, 1956). Essentialists "emphasize
the cultural heritage and traditional subject matter," while progressivists "treat the schools as laboratories of experience in which students learn chiefly by pragmatic problem solving" (How to create Utopia, 1956).
Reconstruction borrows from all of these, but finds shortcomings in each: perennialism "leads to dogma and false orthodoxies"; essentialism encourages the status quo, i.e., stagnation; and progressivism, while its "strong
on method" is unsure "what they should be educating for" (How to create Utopia, 1956). The article says that societys task is to "determine what goals men should strive for
by appealing to social consensus," a result that reflects the wishes of the majority (How to create Utopia, 1956). The student in a newly-designed curriculum will work toward answering one
question: "Where do we as a people want to go?" (How to create Utopia, 1956). Thus, the schools, in this vision, lead the way to a new society based on
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