not create any foreign cultural islands within the United States.
A balkanization of society brought about through a pro cess of cultural pluralism would likely lead to greater socie tal stability than would assimilation. Assimilation does tend to enjoy some success over the very long term. Roman Catholic Irish and Italian communities are by now well assimilated into American society. These groups, however, also want some of their own values assimilated into American life. One example is the Roman Catholic position on abortion, the attempt ofwhich to force on the American population majority through assimilation has created significant societal instability. A 4culturally pluralistic society, by contrast, could permit each population group to observe its own values, without the need to develop some new value to apply to all.
George Spindler (1963, p. 11) contends that an anthropol ogy of education must be a body of verified, empirical knowl edge, which is developed through analysis of various aspects of the ed
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