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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.973
EAN: 9780679750314
ISBN: 0679750312
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: October 29, 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: October 29, 1996
Sales Rank: 94392
Studio: Vintage
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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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Postman consistently does two things in this book: mangles the English language and provides arguments with no backing. Time and again he manages to lose track of his original point, leaving the reader lost in anecdotes, parables and less than original suggestions.
While the second half is easily more readable than the first, it doesn't get that much better, and Postman definitely leaves the reader wondering why they bothered when he doesn't provide many actual answers. Those that ... Read More
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This book offers a vision that radically opposes what I've found in the schools of the students I tutor. Postman wants each and every stakeholder in the educational system to reflect on what education is for and why they are learning. He sees schools as something far more than generators of willing workers or transmitters of academic knowledge. He wants thinkers who revel in their courageous mistakes, appreciate America's democracy, care for their fellow man and woman, question technologies around them ... Read More
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"Without a narrative, life has no meaning. Without meaning, learning has no purpose. Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention. This is what 'End of education,' is all about." Neil Postman
Educating for Humanity:
Educational policy directives over the last half century have veered away from participation, through the UNESCO and other cultural institutions, in promoting the important concept of educating for an integral humanity, the negligence ... Read More
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And I don't say that lightly. Postman is able to discern and illuminate why schools are failing, or perhaps more to the point, why our society has failed our schools, and has done so with such a unique perspective that my worldview has been forever changed. Read it!
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My name is Mark and I was an 'A' student. I did well on tests, impressed my teachers, and was generally viewed as a star student. The one blight on my record was a mediocre grade in my A.P. English class in high school. Something about the class disturbed my complacent performance and ignited a spark of resistence and non-cooperation. I couldn't bring myself to answer the questions posed by the teacher, on plot, or character, or theme, or setting, with any real attention or engagement. What was lacking ... Read More
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