Download the fantastic book titled The Curiosity of School written by Zander Sherman, available in its entirety in both PDF and EPUB formats for online reading. This page includes a concise summary, a preview of the book cover, and detailed information about "The Curiosity of School", which was released on 07 August 2012. We suggest perusing the summary before initiating your download. This book is a top selection for enthusiasts of the Education genre.
Summary of The Curiosity of School by Zander Sherman PDF
It's one thing we all have in common. We've all been to school. But as Zander Sherman shows in this fascinating, often shocking account of institutionalized education, sending your kids off to school was not always normal. In fact, school is a very recent invention. Taking the reader back to 19th-century Prussia, where generals, worried about soldiers' troubling individuality, sought a way to standardize every young man of military age, through to the most controversial debates that swirl around the world about the topic of education today, Sherman tells the often astonishing stories of the men and women-and corporations-that have defined what we have come to think of as both the privilege and the responsibility of being educated. Along the way, we discover that the SAT was invented as an intelligence test designed to allow the state to sterilize "imbeciles," that suicide in the wake of disappointing results in the state university placement exams is the fifth leading cause of death in China, and that commercialized higher education seduces students into debt as cynically as credit card companies do. Provocative, entertaining-and even educational-The Curiosity of School lays bare the forces that shape the institution that shapes all of us.
Detail About The Curiosity of School PDF
- Author : Zander Sherman
- Publisher : Penguin Canada
- Genre : Education
- Total Pages : 304 pages
- ISBN : 0143186493
- Release Date : 07 August 2012
- PDF File Size : 42,9 Mb
- Language : English
- Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews
Clicking on the GET BOOK button will initiate the downloading process of The Curiosity of School by Zander Sherman. This book is available in ePub and PDF format with a single click unlimited downloads.
