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Title: The Graves Of Academe (Common Reader Editions) by Richard Mitchell, Richard Mitchell ISBN: 1-888173-92-0 Publisher: Akadine Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Professor Versus the Education Establishment
Comment: There is almost nothing so valuable as a book that shows that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In The Graves of Academe, Professor Richard Mitchell performs that feat. His emperor is the American education establishment which incessantly struts and proclaims its importance and dedication to the welfare of children. Mitchell, however, shows it to be a pompous fraud that miseducates children while consuming ever more tax dollars. As college professors will attest and international tests show, American kids are less and less able to do academic work. Mitchell explains why: We have adopted a mandatory system of teacher training that fills the heads of prospective teachers with faddish educational theories but leaves them clueless about actual subjects. Mitchell writes with wit, verve, and unconcealed contempt for the education "professionals" whom he indicts for dumbing down millions of American children. If you'd like to know why so many young people can't make change for a dollar or struggle to read the comics, this is the book for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ever wonder about the death of education in America?
Comment: This is by far one of the most important books written this century. It goes into detail about not only what is wrong with "education" in this country, but also what the causes are, and who is responsible. It is usually quoted in contemporary books on American education (e.g., _Dumbing Down Our Kids_ by Charles J. Sykes) because it is, simply, just that good. I first came across this book in a college library; someone had begun to underline all the sentences in which Mitchell made a good point, and had to stop, because they were underlining virtually every word. Not only is the content a wondrous gift, but the style brilliantly exemplifies economy, biting wit, and a high level of information density. If only all books were this good!
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Title: Leaning Tower Of Babel (Common Reader Editions) by Richard Mitchell, Richard Mitchell ISBN: 1585790036 Publisher: Akadine Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Less Than Words Can Say (Common Reader Editions) by Richard Mitchell, Richard Mitchell ISBN: 188817367X Publisher: Joiner/Oriel Inc Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Gift of Fire by Richard Mitchell ISBN: 0671639382 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books Pub. Date: August, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Culture We Deserve : A Critique of Disenlightenment by Jacques Barzun ISBN: 0819562378 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach by Howard Gardner ISBN: 0465088961 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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