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Schooling In Capitalist America: Educational Reform And The Contradictions Of Economic Life
by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis
informative
slow-paced
This book is very slow and dry and wordy at times, pretty hard to chew through even if you're interested in education like myself. In addition, some chapters read old, like the statistical analysis around IQ and testing which is pretty well cemented today (although not known as broadly as it should).
If you can manage to punch through the stiffness, there is a lot of incredible information in this book. Writing that you won't find anywhere in books published this decade, this book is unique in what it offers. The insightful educational critique is too potent to pass up, I often found myself gasping in realization.
If you can manage to punch through the stiffness, there is a lot of incredible information in this book. Writing that you won't find anywhere in books published this decade, this book is unique in what it offers. The insightful educational critique is too potent to pass up, I often found myself gasping in realization.