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Getting beyond
the rhetoric about
education...
Getting it Wrong from the Beginning:
Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert
Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean
Piaget
The ideas upon which public education
was founded in the last half of the
nineteenth century were wrong. And despite
their continued dominance in educational
thinking for a century and a half, these
ideas are no more right today. So argues
one of the most original and highly
regarded educational theorists of our time
in Getting It Wrong from the Beginning.
Kieran Egan explains how we have come to
take mistaken concepts about education for
granted and why this dooms our attempts at
educational reform. Egan traces the
nineteenth-century sources of Progressive
thinking about education and their
persistence even now. He diagnoses the
problem with our schools in a radically
different way, and likewise prescribes
novel alternatives to present educational
practice. His book is both persuasive and
full of promise -- a book that belongs on
the must-read list for anyone who cares
about the success of our schools.
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Do you know
all about the Trivium? If
not...
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of
Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
Opening the door for beginners who seek
a thorough grounding in the first arts of
human understanding, this book explains
the nature of logic, grammar, and rhetoric
-- the three of the seven liberal arts --
and how they relate to one another. In
Renaissance universities, the trivium
(literally, the crossing of three part
way) formed the essence of the liberal
arts curriculum. Examined are topics such
as the nature and function of language,
distinguishing general grammar from
special grammar, the study of logic and
its relationship to grammar and rhetoric,
and applying the concepts of logic,
grammar, and rhetoric to literary
works.
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The Truth of
things...
The Truth of Things: Liberal Arts
and the Recovery of Reality
In his newest book, scholar and critic
Marion Montgomery recasts the contemporary
critique of higher education. Providing
urgently needed historical and
philosophical perspective, he reveals the
roots of our educational chaos. There can
be no reform, he insists, without a new
openness to the "truth of things," which
marks the character and work of the good
teacher.
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The corruption
of the humanities...
Literature Lost: Social Agendas and
the Corruption of the Humanities
With forceful logic, Professor John M.
Ellis contends that humanistic education
today, far from being historically aware,
relies on anachronistic thinking. Ellis
speaks out against an orthodoxy that has
installed race, gender, and class
perspectives at the center of college
humanities curricula, and proposes change
to repair the damage.
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The conspiracy
of ignorance
The Conspiracy of Ignorance: The
Failure of American Public Schools
The findings reported all too often in
the press are awesome: as many as 77% of
eighth graders fail reading tests, and as
many as 65% fail math tests. Government
schools monopolize over 90% of schooling
and are supported by school taxes. Are the
taxpayers getting any value for their
money? The public schools have claimed for
years that just one more "experiment" or
one more "tax increase" will solve the
problems they face. Yet the situation
continues to worsen. Martin Gross, after
he describes the current crisis, has some
ideas about reforming education.
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Educational
Reform? Here are three eye-opening
books.
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