The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School.

The debates in educational circles today are, more often than not, about programs and processes rather than ends. Neil Postman believes that school has become a trivial pursuit and, like many philosophers, he tries to unify the profession around a set of traditional values. He writes popularly and with a flair, demonstrating a familiarity with a broad range of literature, philosophy, and politics addressing big, complex ideas.

Postman is much more concerned with the whys or purposes of education than he is with the hows or techniques. He concedes that we can make the trains run on time but asks: If they don't go where we want them to, why bother? Thus the book's ambiguous …