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Loading... The End of Education: Redefining the Value of Schoolby Neil Postman
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I don't think that I'll ever look at my own education quite same after reading this book. It was an incredibly enlightening book, but not one without faults. I decided to give this book a four instead of a five due to the last 60 pages or so of the book. While the earlier portion of the book held my attention very well and was engaging, the final portion of the book was a bit more difficult to get through. That is not to say that the last part of the book was bad in any way, just a bit more difficult. The ideas contained within the book are extremely interesting. (  ) russelllindsey | Aug 2, 2008 |   no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679750312, Paperback)Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic separatism and resentment. What alternative strategies can we use to instill our children with a sense of global citizenship, healthy intellectual skepticism, respect of America's traditions, and appreciation of its diversity? In answering this question, The End of Education restores meaning and common sense to the arena in which they are most urgently needed."Informal and clear...Postman's ideas about education are appealingly fresh."--New York Times Book Review (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:03 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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