.A dominant theme in this school was what I call narcissism, or extreme individualism. This emerges, for example, in t e emphasis in the classroom on thinking for oneself, on externalizing, in creative projects of all sorts, what is internal in the attempts to individualize instruction, in the personal discovery intended by the science and math programs, and in the principal's and teachers' stated emphasis on personal development and creativity as important goals of education. (Anyon, p.21, 22)