Teaching as a subversive activity
by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner · first published 1969
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A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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I couldn't agree with this thread more. "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" by Neil Postman is a wonderful read that addresses how our obsession with grades, courses and syllabi is completely contrary to helping people learn.
on “Test Scores Cast Doubt on U.S. Education Reform” ↗For anyone who enjoyed this, a lot of these ideas were really well discussed a few years back in Neil Postman's "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" (1969) and John Dewey's "Democracy & Education" (1916). As you can see these books are over 50 years old. These ideas aren't new, which goes to say how long we've known this and what little have we done.…
on “The Lesson to Unlearn” ↗Nail Postman, one of the two authors of Teaching as a subversive activity also wrote the prophetic Amusing ourselves to death. I read the introduction to the former when I was in college in the eighties, and it has stuck with me. They argue that the role of education (especially…
on “Inquiry education – from 1969 – is what we need today” ↗When I was in high school, I read Postman's "Teaching as a Subversive Activity". The thing I remember most about the book is it asking the question "What is important?" and suggesting that such a question might actually belong in the classroom. I think this article meshes with…
on “Things We Need to Know About Technological Change (1998) [pdf]” ↗