The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School by Postman, Neil

The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679750314)

Author: Neil Postman
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Format: Paperback
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The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School by Postman, Neil

The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

$16.95
The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School by Postman, Neil

The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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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

Author: Neil Postman
ISBN-10: 0679750312
ISBN-13: 9780679750314
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 10/29/1996
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.22w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/30/1996
By Neil Postman
By Neil Postman
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Neil Postman was University Professor, Paulette Goddard Chair of Media Ecology, and Chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Among his twenty books are studies of childhood (The Disappearance of Childhood), public discourse (Amusing Ourselves to Death), education (Teaching as a Subversive Activity and The End of Education), and the impact of technology (Technopoly). His interest in education was long-standing, beginning with his experience as an elementary and secondary school teacher. He died in 2003.

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