Robert Mitchell 
Nurturing the Souls of Our Children 
Education and the Culture of Democracy

To devise a theory of education is to address the questions of culture, cultural values and cultural identity formation in the child. In this original study, Robert Mitchell gives us a scholarly overview of cultural education in Americas schools. He demonstrates how the public trust of universal education fails our children and our democracy. He then advocates reframing our concept of education in terms of a sacred trust that teaches the culture of democracy.
Turning to the question of the role of the teacher, Mr. Mitchell weaves together anecdotal evidence of a teacher archetype with advanced theories in archetypal psychology. This compelling work breaks new ground to provide us with a refreshingly new and visionary approach to K-12 education.

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Robert Mitchell was born in 1945 and raised in California and Illinois. He studied architecture at the University of Illinois for two years before receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Troy State University. He is a veteran who served in the Vietnam War and was honorably discharged in 1970.

He then lived in Europe, North Africa and Mexico, working as a freelance writer and designer for eight years before becoming a teacher in a small private American secondary school in Mexico. In a career spanning nearly 30 years, Mr. Mitchell has taught English, history, art and mathematics in both public and private schools in the United States and abroad. He currently lives in Maryland and teaches mathematics in a small private secondary school near Washington DC.