DAVID E. PURPEL is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of The Moral and Spiritual Crisis in Education (Bergin & Garvey, 1989).SVI SHAPIRO is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and the author of Between Capitalism and Democracy: Education and the Crisis of the Welfare State (Bergin & Garvey, 1990).