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The paper relates that Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky believed child development was dependent on the influence of society. From Vygotsky's point of view, schools were not simply places for children to learn subjects deemed necessary for their education. Rather, students were turned into citizens based on what they learned and who was teaching them in their respective schools. The paper contends, however, that American schools have become a place in which society's will is imposed upon the students, rather than being those places in which students go to learn and become viable members of society in the process.

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"Little question exists over this perspective being true today. American educational results--shown by declining grades in basic subjects and the inability of many graduating high school seniors to put together even a simple sentence--indicate that the American school system is less concerned over what is being taught than in how it is being taught."

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