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The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

By Neil Postman

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1996
ISBN
0679750312, 9780679750314
Open Library ID
OL7700387M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1194235 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
224\94
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

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

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