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To the Editor:
The Commentary by Alfie Kohn in your Sept. 3, 1997, issue ( "Students Don't 'Work,'--They Learn" ) is one of the most valuable things you've published in a good long while. Mr. Kohn is right to raise the questions that he does about the way young children are devalued when we are compelled to view them only as small economic units--"workers," "products," or "producers"--rather than as people who have human value in themselves for...
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