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ReadMultiplex.com: The End Of Education: A 1995 Warning.
In 1995, Neil Postman published a book with a Janus-faced title. The End of Education meant two things at once: that schooling as we knew it was coming to an end, and that schooling had lost its ends — its purposes, its reasons, its gods. He argued that a school without a transcendent narrative is not a school at all. It is a holding pen with a curriculum. Thirty-one years later, the holding pen has Wi-Fi, and every student carries in their pocket a machine that can do their homework, write their essays, and answer every question on the test — while unde...
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So I want you to imagine walking into a high school classroom today. Oh yeah, just picture the scene. Right, so every single kid sitting at those desks
is carrying a piece of glass and silicon in their pocket that can conjure a flawless five paragraph essay. Right, on literally any topic. Exactly. Like on the geopolitical causes of the Civil War, and it takes about three seconds,
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