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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