A review by courtofsmutandstuff
The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith

2.0

I read this in a Philosophy of Education class and while I share Smith's primary thesis (that the classic view of learning- that it is easy and natural- has been subverted in favor of the official view of learning -that it is hard, requires tests, and if you don't learn it's because you're lazy), I could not get over his hatred of psychology. It is informative and provides a solid inquiry into our view of teaching as educators, but my distance from Smith's approach (especially his sections on psychology) prevented me from enjoying his book further.