This book takes a sharply critical view of contemporary society with a searing indictment of our morally and intellectually bankrupt educational system. Uniquely, the book contains both the original version of David Purpel's highly influential "Moral and Spiritual Crisis in Education, " first published in 1989, as well as an updated critique of that work - reflections from our current times of growing despair about the directions of education and the nation. "Reflections on the Moral and Spiritual Crisis in Education" focuses on the possibility - and necessity - of generating hope through the redemptive and energizing power of the human spirit.