RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Those Places They Call Schools JF Harvard Educational Review JO herp FD Harvard Educational Press SP 46 OP 57 DO 10.17763/haer.39.4.r254748545754v5v VO 39 IS 4 A1 Coles, Robert YR 1969 UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/39/4/46.abstract AB People like me visit a large number of schools, talk with the principals and assistant principals and teachers and children,then leave and soon enough have our say: this school had some interesting things going inside it; that one was awful;the children over here are learning practically nothing; the children over there may be picking some things up in the classroom, but the price—psychological, emotional, spiritual if you will—they pay for the achievement is much too high.