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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.973
EAN: 9780385290098
ISBN: 0385290098
Label: Delta
Manufacturer: Delta
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: July 15, 1971
Publisher: Delta
Release Date: July 15, 1971
Sales Rank: 49413
Studio: Delta
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Most reviewers seem to like Teaching as a Subversive Activity. I am not among the book's fans.
The book's authors, Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner, score a number of points. They manage to "nail" educators for relying too much on the lecture method in which students copy, then memorize, the teacher's opinions. This is a very valid criticism; teachers do little to teach students how to think; we settle for teaching them what to think. The authors make another good point about the ... Read More
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Although it was published nearly forty years ago (1969), this book should be *mandatory* (I really want a stronger word) for everyone who is even considering a career in teaching, educational administration, homeschooling, or choosing a school (K-college) for their children. The basic idea: learning must be internally motivated, that true education entails learning what questions to ask, and how to think about how to discover/develop answers. After a devastating critique of the educational establishment, ... Read More
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A classic for anyone in education.
As relevant today as it was when published in 1969.
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40 years since Postman declared the need for reformed education and our school systems still look the same today as it did then. A new age is still growing for the next age of education.
This is the most excellent book on the nature of teaching and educating I have yet read. Postman articulates the utmost need for asking questions, for children and adults to think critically, to formulate conclusions, discover what they feel is relevant and important to modern life, and that this kind of process ... Read More
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This book has some pleasant surprises, but leaves the reader with an overall sense of frustration.
The book's appeal today is not what it would have been in 1969. At publication, the book was probably radical for its experimental approach to education that suggests that stimulating creativity and questioning is more important than the transference of raw data to students. Today it is fascinating because it makes you wonder, Did people really think like this? Were the 1950's as mindless and autocratic ... Read More
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