![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What`s more, Postman says, ''All professors are ignorant, but not all ignorances are of equal importance. Many of the history`s most esteemed philosophers were educationists, among them Confucius, Plato, Erasmus, Locke, Rousseau, Milton, William James and John Dewey. His piece called ''The Educationist as Painkiller'' is most provocative, arguing that schools like Yale that do not teach education, seeing it as a trivial study, have it backward. In this collection of essays, he says no to some hallowed assumptions about technology, language and education. Postman, who chairs the Department of Communication Arts at New York University, is as readable, and funny, as columnist Russell Baker, whom he admires. Conscientious Objections, by Neil Postman (Vintage, $10). ![]()
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