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This book takes a sharply critical view of contemporary society with a searing indictment of our morally and intellectually bankrupt educational system. Uniquely, the book contains both the original version of David Purpel_s highly influential Moral and Spiritual Crisis in Education, first published in 1989, as well as an updated critique of that work _ reflections from our current times of growing despair about the directions of education and the nation. Reflections on the Moral and Spiritual Crisis in Education focuses on the possibility _ and necessity _ of generating hope through the redemptive and energizing power of the human spirit.