Teaching As a Subversive Activity
by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner
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Author: Charles Weingartner, Neil PostmanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1971-07-15
ISBN: 0385290098
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Delta
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Book Review: The beginning of Education Reform
Summary: 5 Stars
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 should be the basis for our education system.
Kids are taught to submit to authorities in school. They learn to answer the teacher's "Guess what I'm thinking?" The student raises his or her hand to offer the "correct" answer. Yet Postman offers ways to challenge and change the K-12 and university systems.
Postman explains the way in which the coming age can address relevant problems of today. To encourage students to think and search for new problems we aren't solving, while also being aware of those who've come before us - where things come from, why were things invented, and for what need are certain things used.
This book is essential for anyone who is concerned about education, and the allowance for free thought, expression, and to build a society of intelligent citizens. It goes in depth and covers clearly the ways in which we can begin to reform education.
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A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.Education Books
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