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Roger Schank is outraged. He has had it with the stupid, lazy, greedy, cynical, and uninformed forces setting outrageous education policy, wrecking childhood, and preparing students for a world that will never exist. His keen intellect, courage, and razor-sharp wit cuts away several layers of conventional wisdom; causing readers to confront their own prejudices and school-distorted notions of learning. No sacred cow is off limit – even some species you never considered.The short essays in this book will make you mad, sad, argue with your friends, and take action. Most of all, Education Outrage is funny as hell. Dr. Roger Schank is an expert learner and expert on learning. His professional accomplishments could fill several lifetimes. Schank is a distinguished university professor, mathematician, linguist, computer scientist, artificial intelligence pioneer, entrepreneur, TV host, software developer, author, parent, grandparent, and softball player.Education Outrage is a curated anthology of essays from his popular blog, illuminating the problems with standardized testing, outdated curriculum, MOOCs, online learning, education reform schemes, teaching to the test, international rankings in education, college admissions, and much more. The book concludes with a chapter of practical ideas on how to fix what's wrong with our current concept of school, and advice for current students who wonder if school is relevant to their lives.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Constructing Modern Knowledge Press (January 5, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 308 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0989151131
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0989151139
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2016

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I bought this book based on the recommendation of Constructing Modern Knowledge Press - whom I trust.

I recommend that you read this book when you are in a bad mood, want to stay in a bad mood and are looking for vindication. I could find nothing in its 287 pages that cheered me up. There was no good news about current education policy. If you don't like the New York Times you'll find lots of evidence you are right. If you like the NYT, you'll just have to get over it :)

Roger Schank is not just angry about the state of American Education - he's OUTRAGED! (He publishes a blog of the same name: [...]) If you are looking for a happy ending, look elsewhere.

BUT if you want to take a look at education from a completely fresh perspective read this book. Nobody else I have found deals out the unvarnished, provocative, heart-rending truth about how screwed up schools are like Schank. His diatribes were new to me. So I looked around and found out more about him. (You should do the same.) His positions are borne from research, study, practice and experience. You could add common sense to that list.

It would be easy to color him a crank who spews vitriol just to get conformist education experts all riled up. (He does.) But I saw lots of prescriptions in his book (woven into the criticism) that seem pretty obvious to me would make education work better. (His quick advice: Eliminate Classrooms.) He devotes a whole chapter (35 pages) to How To Fix Education.

His book made me wonder: How did we get here? Why are we carrying forward teaching habits from the 19th century? Profit, laziness, convenience, parents who need day care? I've met a lot of inspiring educators. Are they trapped in a dysfunctional system? Why don't they leave? Interpreting the education 'establishment' motives with a cynical bias: Does a small elite perpetuate a broken system to serve their own interests? I don't believe Schank satisfactorily answers those questions, but I'd like to know.

I like the format: bite-sized (1-2 page) chunks taken from his blog posts. It works for my ADD reading style :)

This book takes on the 'System' of education the way Tim Ferriss challenges the 'System' of work and employment in The Four Hour Workweek. Both make you think 'different' and that's a good thing.

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I've been told that going to university (esp a FAMOUS UNIVERSITY) is a good thing but at the same time, I've been wondering if it's true or not.
This book showed me a way to find the answer.
I think this is the most revolutionary book on educational matters. Worth reading!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 4, 2017

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Interesting rant. I hope lots of kids read this before going into debt.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2016

Very good and worth reading. All professor's Schank tremendous knowledge on learning and education compiled in short chapters covering all the complex aspects in the education realm. Full of insights and inspiration for all those who take education seriously and want to change things for the better. To start changing things we have to get rid of our deep rooted believes about education and Roger is a master on putting us face to face with all the ridiculous mandates and believes that the system has programed in our minds since we started going to school, and if we not put remedy we will put in our children and grandchildren minds with great harm to them.

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